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Had a 3 interviews in Bend (more later I don't want screw its up). Yesterday I awoke to a dog whining. I was staying at the in-laws (love the in-laws) and had the window open in the bedroom. Father in-law is outside the window with a shovel and his dog, Coco, is running around trying to get something. Turns out it is a rat. So I let my dogs out. My dogs love the in-laws because there are buffalo, cows, ducks, deer, moles, squirrels, frogs, rock chuck (they are marmots type things that live in the rock pile and general are shot at) and whatever neighbor dogs that wander through the 10 acres. My dogs proceed to join Coco in running back in forth on the deck and under the deck, looking for the rat (field rat). I leave for the last interview and all 3 dogs have surrounded the AC unit and are digging around it in attempts to get something. Well at least they are chasing the cows with the calves. So I leave and come back and the dogs are still around the AC unit. They don't even greet me (which if you have met my dogs, they have to say hi to everyone). So I leave the dogs outside and get ready to go home. I pack up the car and leave it open, expecting the dogs to jump in and get ready drive (again the dogs love to ride in cars). No dogs. I call the dogs and get R. to come over look at me and then return to AC unit. I walk over to the AC unit and the dogs have manage to clear most of the dirt under and around the AC unit and are desperately trying to get all the way underneath the unit. So, I grab R. and move her away. She is covered in dirt, especially her tongue and she continues to move towards the AC unit to join the other 2 dogs who have not let up. I try to get L. away from AC units and she will not pay any attention to me other to look at me and then attempt to dive under the AC unit. I am guessing that is where the rat is now. I have to walk over to L. and grab her by the collar and drag her away. All the time she is trying to get out of her collar and back to the AC unit. I take both dogs into the mud room and give them some water because both are panting like fiends. Both dogs get weird about drinking water and peeing when we drive more than 2.5 hours (which we will be doing). As I am brushing the dirt off the dogs I notice L. has several cuts/skinned areas on her face. She had crammed her face so hard against the AC units she had several cuts on her face. I leave them for 10 minutes and then escort them to the car, they both try to veer off towards the AC unit to join Coco, but I get them in the car. My wife and I are about to get into the car, when there was a dog or rat scream and then here come Coco with the rat in her mouth, still slightly alive, but not for long...shake....crunch.