When Dogs Act Like Dogs

Last week I faced a traumatic event. My dog, a lovely female lab mix, caught a rabbit in my back yard. As usual, I let her out in the back while I fed the birds and collected the newspaper. When I came back to retrieve her, she was lying quietly beside the fence. I didn't see the rabbit at first, but when I called her and she looked up, there it was, alive but suffering some loss of fur. She came over when I said her name again, and the rabbit ran off, presumably finding a space under the fence to escape. But now Dolly dog has tasted her skills. Will she hunt again? We'll see!