Check out what the cat drug in this morning...
Tom saw the cat with something in her mouth and went out to check. The kitty was more than happy to show us her 'treasure' and did, in fact, make a gift of it. Nice kitty.
Then a couple of days ago when I was walking out to the chicken coop, I noticed a HUGE splat of something green and nasty right outside the henhouse door. Yuck. There was more of the nasty stuff around by the shed and some large animal tracks in the gravel--like those a horse or cow would make. I didn't think much more about it until later in the afternoon Christopher mentioned that there was a cow outside of our fenced pasture---was it one of ours that had gotten out?? I rushed outside to check and was relieved to see our 'boys' still inside the fence but they definitely had a 'friend' visiting.
Turns out our neighbor had 'rented' a bull to freshen up his 2 cows. For whatever reason the bull decided he wanted to go home. Maybe he'd done his job and couldn't see staying on. So he broke through the electric/barbed wire fence and headed out. Apparently this feller had been on the loose for HOURS (hence the doo-doo by my hen house. I'm sure glad I didn't accidentally come eyeball to eyeball with him while out doing my chores!) My neighbors rounded him up and put him back in their pasture...and wouldn't you know it, this determined bull did it again! He broke down the fence but this time he took some friends with him: his 'girlfriends', a couple of steers and some calves all joined him in his mad dash to freedom. Bovines were roaming the neighborhood like zombies in a sci-fi. Calves in the corn. Cows in our driveway. The bull on the ditchbank. Meanwhile the neighbor's 2 teenage sons were zooming around on quads doing their best to get them all rounded up before the sun went down. I'm not sure how the story ended. I couldn't handle so much excitement and besides, the mosquitos were biting. I went inside and ate some chocolate to calm my nerves. Then I went to bed. When I got up this morning, everything seemed quiet and peaceful with nary a rogue cow in sight.
All is safe on The Croft once again....or is it???? (To be continued....)
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