Dogs and Chickens
My daughter and son-in-law are away for just one night, so I agreed to look after the two dogs and eight chickens. Easy? Pretty much. But things can be challenging.
The dogs sleep a lot. While I am sitting at the computer or sitting watching television, they pretty much just sleep. If they want to go outside, they either stand at the door waiting or it to open or come and harrass me!
They like playing ball at the back of the property and twice I have taken them up there. They will run and catch the ball, but do not bring it back to me, so I have to hunt around to get them back.
This morning, on the way back I chose to water some orchid plants, and afterwards there was only one dog waiting to get indoors. Mmm.
I hunted around, calling for LuLu to come, but there was no sign of her, so I set off to the area where we played ball earlier. She must have heard me calling, as she soon came running to me.
The Chickens
I let them out, as instructed, and the head rooster directs the girls to follow him, but there is a brush turkey who is hanging around them. It is really interested in getting into their food.
Yesterday, when I set out to lock them up for the night - there are foxes, snakes etc around, but one black and white one refused to abide by the rules. Eventually, after lots of "directing", she gave up and joined the team.
This morning when I let them out, the brush turkey rushed into their pen and enjoyed some food, until I saw it, and went in the pen to get it out. It got the message quickly and ran out.
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