The great crab hunters

When we first got to the Caribbean we would take the dogs for walks along the beach. They would sniff around and walk with us. If a crab ran across the beach they would chase it. I remember the first time they encountered a crab (September 2014, in the Bahamas) They had it surrounded for about 15 minutes but couldn't decided what to do with it. They would get it in their mouth but then the crab must have pinched them so they would let it go. The crab eventually ran to the water and the chase was over.

Fast forward to today. Now the dogs get on the beach and they do there business. Then it's all crab hunting. For a while they didn't even care where I was, they would run off chasing crabs. ( I did fix that). Lexie sniffs every whole on the beach and checks it for crabs. Max checks out all the rocky places on the beach for crabs. They now spend 99% of their time on the beach hunting for crabs.

I'm not sure what they would do now on shore if they didn't have crabs to chase.

                                                           Lexie looking for some crabs

                                                       Max and Lexie looking for crabs

                                                     Lexie sniffing some holes for crabs