Guess What My Dog Did Yesterday

Dear Wal,

She killed a raccoon. It was slightly traumatizing.
I was running along, doing my semi-daily two-mile run (semi-daily meaning my running is less neglected than this blog) and-beating my previous fastest time by two minutes if I do say so myself-all of a sudden the dog came barreling down the hill out of no where and grabbed this raccoon. I don't know exactly what happened. The raccoon must have tried to make a run for it when it saw her coming. Bad idea. My dog is fast. And coupled with the momentum she had from rocketing down a steep hill like that, the poor raccoon had no chance.

My Dog, Cinderella

It didn't even get the opportunity to fight. She flailed it to death and snapped it's neck before it could do anything more than make panicked squealing noises. I went and told Dad and he said to go put her in the house to get her away from it. So I went and got the leash, all the while thinking This is never going to work. She's going to twist out of her collar. I was seriously considering going on a hunt for her choke chain (which vanished into the void of lost things along with my iPod Shuffle and about five hundred hair bows and pencils) but decided against it. The most important thing was to get her inside as quickly as possible.
I walked up to where she'd killed the raccoon and very carefully aproached it and her. I didn't want to make her feel like her territory was being invaded. She can be very possessive. And I didn't want the raccoon to suddenly not actually be dead and start flailing around with me within range. That didn't happen, thankfully. I clipped the leash to her collar and had to literally drag her away from it. I know just how to hold the leash so she can't twist out. She realized this pretty quickly, and got up and walked with me down to the house.
It was extremely exciting. The raccoon is still laying in the road. I don't know what to do with it.

/endrant

P.S. That entire time I was weazing and groaning and babbling nonsense because I was so tired. Two miles in 21 minutes, oh yeah.