Or maybe I should say tricks I haven't seen before. Sat. (7-20) I heard a bird making a big fuss out back and went to the back door to see what was happening. A bird with a red breast, not a robin, was sitting on the rose bush just outside of the dog pen. He flew to the fence scolding all the time. He then flew to the old clothes line pole then to the juniper tree still scolding, no other birds around. Then I looked down at the base of the steps where Poocheroo was standing. She looked up at me then down at her feet and I caught a glimpse of red fethers. She had caught another bird. She doesn't usually pay any attention to them, lets them drink from her water bowl and even swipe food from her dish that she hasn't eaten, but when they work together one diving at her to get her attention while the other one swiped her food then she takes action. I have seen jump and catch them in the air when they got too close. That is evidently what had happened this time. (I had to stop and let her in as it is thundering out there and she is afraid of thunder.) Anyway, I went out on the step and was going to take the dead bird and dispose of it when she bent and picked it up. "Put it down, " I told her, twice, and she just looked at me then walked away with it. "All right, you don't want me to take its so what are you going to do with it?" says I. She looked at me again then walked to each of her holes she has dug in her yard until she found a small one under the clothes line pole and dropped the dead bird into it and proceeded to push dirt over the bird moving around until she had it completely covered: SHE HAD BURIED THE BIRD! Now she doesn't cover anything up by pawing dirt over it but rather uses her nose to push dirt into place where she wants it. It had rained the day before so it was muddy where she had been digging and when she got done and looked up at me with a pleased doggy expression on her face like she was telling me "That's what!" her muzzle was plastered with mud! She looked so comical! I had seen her bury a bone or a piece of food she didn't want to eat right then but had no idea she would bury a bird. I wonder if she has any others in her grave yard. She keeps me entertained!