Lighting definitely does not strike twice with Dunc the golden retriever.

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9. I have a bassador here who's as much an ecological disaster as a stray cat

He loves to eat mice. Kills possums. In his younger days he could outrun (and thus eat) squirrels or chipmunks on the ground. Loves to find a rabbit's nest, with the resulting carnage, but will settle for adult rabbits. Chases buzzards. Hates snakes without regard for their pedigree (has been bitten twice on the snout by copperheads). Tag-teamed with my bull mastiff in a running battle through the woods with an otter from the catfish pond to where it finally escaped in a creek nearly a mile away. Makes mowing 'interesting' because he's always digging for moles to show off.

Yet I still give him treats and a spot on the couch.