On to-day's dog walk, #Gruoch stuck her muzzle into a clump of grass, as she is wont to do, hundreds of times every day. Suddenly, her head swivelled around and she threw out a vole (Microtus agrestis).
The vole hit me square in the face. To say I was surprised would be putting it mildly. I'm sure the vole was quite surprised, too.
The vole scurried off, and hid in another clump of grass.