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I've always felt that those horrible little yappy dogs are more rat than dog, and clearly I'm not alone in this opinion:

(from Wired News)

Trained hawks employed to keep pigeons from making a mess on visitors in New York City's Bryant Park have been grounded because one of the birds mistook a Chihuahua as its lunch. An 18-inch hawk swooped down and gouged the diminutive pooch with one of its talons while the dog was nosing around in some bushes. The hawk was quickly separated from the pooch, and a cab was flagged down so the dog's owner could take it to a vet. "I sincerely believe the bird mistook it for a rat because it was in the shrubbery," said Thomas Cullen, falconer for the anti-pigeon program. Parks officials are now considering canceling the otherwise successful program.


So I can now think of those runty annoyances as bird food now as well!