She might just want to play.. with whatever bug you swat!
Rosie.. yes she's a dog.. but.. she comes running over anytime we swat at anything.. with a newspaper, a swatter, a hand, a book.. even if were swatting eachother
She learned along time ago that swatting means bugs to catch when they hit the floor
The palmetto bug story..
We were in a small house where moms room doubled as the computer room and I would do my homeschooling in there. We had 4 JRTs at the time. I was in the room one afternoon sitting on the bed with a book.. Mom had stolen the computer
...
Suddenly I look up and screech... yes yes I screeched, ok? There was an enormous flying cockroach! It was almost the length of my palm and was all evily cockroach looking with big cockroach wings!
Otherwise known as Palmetto bugs (florida).
So Rosie jumps up (all the dogs were in the room and most on the bed around me) shes grrrring and carrying on trying to figure out the cause of screeching... and Mom jumps up and grabs a shoe.
There she is.. (while I'm hunkering on the bed in terror
) banging the shoe against the wall trying to get this darn thing... and all 4 dogs are over there respectively rooting around the floor looking for something buglike that might have fallen.. and boinging at the wall and moms shoe she was trying to bash the cockroach with!
Then Mom got a little scared when the bug flew at her.. and threw the shoe at the bug! Rosie caught the shoe in the air... and is doing her 'kill it' thing... shakinging it viciously from side to side and savagely snarling at it (usually her toys)... it would be enough to break a small animals neck and probably rend te head off
So moms yelling "Give me back my shoe!!!" And Rosies 'killing it' over and over.
Finally mom gets her shoe back... and smashes the bug against the wall.
My little female JRT, Tilly (Rosies daughter)... she caught the thing when it fell... and races right back to me still huddled on the bed!
Of course... shes 'killing it' with the huge bug in her mouth and trying to jump into my lap at the same time!!!
I was doing this
.. only there was some noise involved.
Little cockroach legs were flying at me! Then came the guts! As they splattered on my leg.. and she wouldn't go away with it (think it was still wriggling in her mouth.
Plus all the dogs were on top of me trying to find the bug Tilly 'must have' dropped somewhere.. and I was pinned down to be sparyed with cockroach parts!
Mom was just standing back and laughing at me!