Gunnar the Greenkeeper

As mentioned before, chihuahuas don't tend to hunt snakes when they go for a walk; Gunnar did so the fifth day we had been in the new neighborhood and came up for air with a garter snake.  Chihuahuas also aren't ferocious diggers. They can get curious, but the chances that one of The Littles would dig out of their fence in less than fifteen minutes, just isn't likely: with Gunnar it is very likely, and I've seen him do it when we were back in Arizona.

Today, little Carl Spackler (Bill Murray's character as the greenkeeper in Caddyshack, chasing the rabid gophers) and I were walking down the road and he decided to start meandering in the ditch. Not a problem, he wasn't being too obnoxious about it; then, he caught the scent of a gopher, mole, mouse, or woodcock. Wait, a woodcock is a bird.

In the time it took me to get the camera out of my back pocket and turn it on, the "Greenkeeper" here had dug through the gopher tunnel and under it up to his forehead. Most of his head was emerged in the soil and when I finally stopped him--I was in shock--he just popped up and continued on his way...with not a speck of dirt on his pretty white fur!

For all intents and purposes, this Husky is a completely different species from the little hairy rats that share our bed and lay around on the couch all day.