Keeping Mom's Critters Again
The kid on Jurassic Park was wrong. Big turkeys are PLENTY scary. And it doesn't help that the noise they make sounds a lot like the adorable squeaks and peeps the poison spitting Dilophosaurus made. So to hear that noise behind me and look around to see this large white thing striding purposefully over and tilting its head at me is a little unnerving. Or to be picking my way around in the dark and hear it and look up and find the turkey roosting on top of the chicken coop at eye level.
Also, alpacas are as quiet as ninjas. I was crouched down in the dark, shoveling feed into a bucket, flashlight clutched between my knees. It's a vulnerable position so my ears were straining for any rustle in the woods. I stood up and turned around and ALPACA. Julio is pretty stand-offish toward me, so I was not expecting to be nose to nose with him in the dark hours of the morning. I certainly didn't hear him coming up behind me. I eeped and he laid his ears back in that affronted Lord Percy way he has. He wasn't too put out to eat the sweet feed though.
They'll be glad to have their real mom back tonight, I think.
Also, alpacas are as quiet as ninjas. I was crouched down in the dark, shoveling feed into a bucket, flashlight clutched between my knees. It's a vulnerable position so my ears were straining for any rustle in the woods. I stood up and turned around and ALPACA. Julio is pretty stand-offish toward me, so I was not expecting to be nose to nose with him in the dark hours of the morning. I certainly didn't hear him coming up behind me. I eeped and he laid his ears back in that affronted Lord Percy way he has. He wasn't too put out to eat the sweet feed though.
They'll be glad to have their real mom back tonight, I think.