She chases the odd rabbit but has most problems with squirrels as they run off the path into the undergrowth and just disappear. She hasn't learned to look up yet.
I have a springer x collie and her favourite chases (apart from kids on bikes...!!!
) are also rabbits and squirrels but her gait is hilarious - she does have much of the speed of a collie but it kind of has this weird bounce to it, and its usually the way he runs that gives it away she isnt a real collie (that and her stoopid ears). Anyway, she wouldn't be able to catch anything but she does try. With squirrels she does know they go up but this means she runs from tree to tree in the park, stopping and stretching up each tree with her back legs on the ground and her forepaws on the trunk of the tree, desperately trying to see if she can see them.
She also has a bit of an identity crisis when it come to birds - she flushes them out of bushes and hedges like a spaniel but if there are loads on the ground on the field then she tries to round them up, and always seems to get confused when they disappear into the sky...
