Animals
So the beagle got loose last night. It was a bit of a funny moment, because we were in the kitchen, trying to find where the hazelnut branch was grafted on to roots, thus needing the light, and the door got left open. She was in the kitchen, and we paid little attention to the wide open door.... she didn't escape until after we shoved her from the kitchen chair for trying to eat the tree.
So we go out to look for her, and thank god she didn't get in another coyote fight ('cause she's not healed yet) or go very far, she was just inside the woods. Baying her head off. Like, I found something I found something! Why isn't it running away! I found something!
She's bouncing around a... lets call it a dead animal. Looked like it. But same time, "It doesn't smell dead. I'd know the smell of dead things, after the racoon."
Got her clipped to a leash, and shined a flashlight...
It was an opossum. Playing opossum.
So we go out to look for her, and thank god she didn't get in another coyote fight ('cause she's not healed yet) or go very far, she was just inside the woods. Baying her head off. Like, I found something I found something! Why isn't it running away! I found something!
She's bouncing around a... lets call it a dead animal. Looked like it. But same time, "It doesn't smell dead. I'd know the smell of dead things, after the racoon."
Got her clipped to a leash, and shined a flashlight...
It was an opossum. Playing opossum.