The cat likely died from the shot.
Otherwise, the dog would be having real problems dealing with a wounded feline.
This is what you’d call “a good cat dog.”
Dachshunds can be very versatile hunting dogs, and if they are needed to control feral pests, they will do the job.
BTW, some of the comments call this action a “criminal offense.”
I hate to tell these people, but in most areas, you can shoot feral cats on your own property. My guess is it’s not illegal in Finland, where this was filmed. Or they wouldn’t have posted it.
I find the translation of the video’s description interesting:
“cat control”.
The general rule-of-thumb in the USA is that if your land is in an area zoned for livestock (if you can keep chickens or goats, etc.), then it is perfectly fine to destroy any animal, someone’s pet or not, that is threatening the well-being and safety of your own animals. The only animals exempt from you taking immediate action, legally, are those listed on endangered or threatened species lists. Even then variances can be given should there be sufficient problem but this requires further study by authorities. Since cats are listed in the top 100 WORST invasive-species of the world in the “Global Invasive Species Database”, this means they have no protection whatsoever from being shot on sight. And in fact, if your area enforces and obeys invasive-species laws — as they should — then it is against the law to NOT destroy any cat on sight, someone’s pet or not. It is your civic and moral responsibility to destroy any invasive-species that is found away from safe confinement and roaming freely in a non-native habitat.
A cat-owner that releases their cat in an area zoned for any form of livestock has no legal grounds to sue anyone if their cat is shot. Even if the shooter walks up to the door of the ex-cat-owner and hands their dead cat back to them, saying, “I shot your cat, here it is. Better luck next time.” Though local law-enforcement frowns on this because the disrespectful and criminally-irresponsible cat-owner will just raise a stink with law-enforcement, wasting their time when they have more important things to do than explain to and coddle an irresponsible ex-cat-owning idiot. Hence the popular “SSS Cat Management Program” (Shoot, Shovel, & Shut-Up) method to save your gendarmes the further hassle by the ex-cat-owning trouble-makers.
I had a feral-cat problem on my own land. (Note the use of the word “had”.) Until the sheriff advised I shoot every last one of them. Using a .22 outfitted with an illuminated-reticle scope and laser-sight to assure a humane kill, and to also make it easy during the times of day when they are the most active, dusk to dawn. All the wildlife on my land is now returning to proper balance. Cat-lover’s oft-spewed “vacuum effect” is a blatant bald-faced lie. NO cats returned to replace the now missing cats. Native predators and native prey that belongs here and was here before cats destroyed nearly all of them are the only things that are returning to my land. May you have as much success as I did.
Please bury or incinerate them now, and wear gloves while doing-so. They need to be removed from making any further contact with wildlife and humans.
After ridding my own land of these vermin, I went online to see what others had to say about feral-cat problems and to offer my own advice on the best methods. During this time I found some surprising things about all the diseases these mangy invasive vermin are now spreading throughout the USA. They are nothing but 4-legged bags of disease-vector now.
The plague:
http://outbreaknews.com/2011/07/29/colorado-stray-cat-tests-positive-plague/
Tularemia (rabbit-fever, transmissible to humans):
http://www.news-gazette.com/news/health/miscellaneous/2011-09-14/cats-savoy-test-positive-rabbit-fever.html
Flea-borne Typhus:
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/county-317133-animals-cases.html
Along with the usual parasites they all carry, like hookworm — that shut down businesses in large parts of Miami:
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2010-11-24/news/fl-miami-beach-hookworms-20101123_1_hookworm-infections-feral-miami-beach
And perhaps the most insidious one of all, the common Toxoplasma gondii parasite that they spread through their feces into all other animals and even livestock. This is how it gets into meats and humans get it from undercooked meats, from cats roaming around stockyards and farms. This parasite not only changes the mind of the animal it invades …
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis#Behavioral_changes
http://wildlifeprofessional.org/blog/?p=3929
http://www.economist.com/node/16271339
http://healthland.time.com/2011/08/18/crazy-cat-love-caused-by-parasitic-infection/
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127955946
… but can even kill you at any time during your life once you’ve been infected by it. It becomes a permanent lifetime parasite in your mind, ready to strike at any time that your immune system becomes compromised. It’s now being linked to the cause of autism, schizophrenia, and brain cancers. The weirdest part of all, its strange life cycle is meant to infect rodents. Any rodents infected with it lose their fear of cats and are actually attracted to cat urine.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070403-cats-rats.html
So even the often proclaimed use for cats to control rodents is now false. Cats actually attract rodents to your home, with their whole slew of flea-borne and other diseases.
Rabies in stray and feral cats is just one of the concerns. And even having your cat vaccinated against rabies doesn’t prevent it from bringing in a mouthful or claws full of fresh rabies virus every day to you after you’ve let it out to go disembowel that rabid bat behind the garage or in the shrubs.
A cat wanders into a yard and is killed by a dog = people scream to kill the dog. A cat wanders into a field and kills native wildlife = people marvel at how ‘natural’ it is. Sick double standard.