Revenge, by Lon Richardson

Jake saw it at the edge of the garden, ears pointed skyward – it that had gotten into his garage and chewed through the speaker wires of the stereo system he had bought while stationed in Germany when the cold war was still in progress and sparking images of Slim Pickens plummeting earthward on a nuclear bomb in that movie starring Peter Sellers, who went on to make films based on a cartoon panther, whereas Jake’s preference was for the cartoon rabbit, not for the real one he held in the sights of his .22 rifle.