Louis found the head of a dead rabbit during our walk and proudly carried it round, ears poking out of one side of his mouth and nose and dislocated lower jaw poking out the other side. Every so often he'd stop to dig a hole and start burying it before changing his mind and disinterring it
As we got back to the car I could see a white fluffy dog , maybe a Cockapoo, running about unsupervised while it's stupid owner sat in her car texting on her mobile and talking to her child. Louis doesn't like unknown dogs approaching him while he's on lead, so when it ran up to him barking he growled at it as best he could with a mouthful of rabbit head.
At least that got the owner's attention and she got out of her car. The conversation then went something like this:
Woman - OMG what's your dog got in his mouth?
Me (nonchalantly) - the head of a dead rabbit.
Woman - OMG, did he kill it?
Me - no, it was already dead when he found it.
Woman - Is he going to eat it?
Me - No (how I wish I'd said yes, he's having it for his tea)
Woman - OMG, OMG, I like bunnies, I don't like seeing dead ones.
At that point, small child cottons on to what he's seeing and hearing and starts screaming - IT'S A DEAD BUNNY, IT'S A DEAD BUNNY.
Apparently, according to his mum, it was somehow my fault that her son had seen a dead bunny and become upset. I gave her a dirty look and left her to it while I bribed Louis to give up the rabbit head in exchange for a treat. I even went behind a gorse bush to do the swap so that the child wouldn't see Louis drop the head.
The child looked like a Year R or Year 1 so I'll be asking my friend, who works at the local primary school, if she hears anything about one of the little ones talking about a dead bunny
Unless the rabbit head is taken away by a fox or another dog I expect Louis will find it again in the morning. William wasn't interested in it at all. He prefers MacDonalds or KFC leftovers that people have dumped
