Sad little chi-weenie

Chee-Sy was left to play in the backyard today shortly after it rained. We always leave the kitchen door ajar so she can come in whenever she wants. Today, the volume of rain was tremendous and our backyard flooded almost up to the porch steps. If the water had risen much further we would have been calling our insurance company to file a claim on our recently renewed flood insurance policy. Two overgrown red-tops and a sweet gum tree thrive in our back yard and they lost a ton of leaves because the downpour was so heavy. There must have been a bird's nest somewhere in one of the trees and a little sparrow got washed out of the nest or drowned, fell to the ground and was hurt or died. Chee-Sy picked up the little bird in her mouth and brought it into the living room where my husband was reading. She wouldn't jump up onto the couch like she usually does. She stood in front of him whimpering until he looked closely at her and saw the dead bird in her mouth. She must have wanted to play and couldn't understand why the little sparrow was dead. After making her drop the bird, we took it to the trash can. Chee-Sy seemed distraught. She may have actually killed the bird by trying to play with it. If there is a toad, gecko, bird, squirrel, cat, or anything that moves in our backyard she is going to want to play with or chase it. I'm still trying to get her to quit chewing on sweet gum balls. She was a sad little chi-weenie today.