Sadie spends a lot of her day just sitting and looking out the window and trying to find squirrels. If she sees one she will run up the backyard trying to get it before it gets up a tree. Then she will sit under the tree staring up for hours.
Lacking a squirrel catch her next victim is a chipmunk.
And lucky for her there is one living under our shed who shows his face and striped back once in a while when he thinks no one is watching. But ever faithful Sadie is on the alert and today chased him under a rock at the top of the pond where she spent most of the day looking down the space between the rocks hoping he'll be foolish enough to come out again.
Now I don't mind her being true to her breeding and knew that she wasn't fast enough to catch those wily critters. But today when I came home I saw that she had something on the ground. I walked up to investigate and saw she had feathers in her mouth....yes, feathers! She had caught one of the doves that frequent the seed dropped from our back feeder. Oh no, Sadie! The dove was still alive but wounded and Sadie was scolded all the way to the house and kept in the rest of the day.
How do you explain to her that doves ...and squirrels...and chipmunks are just there to tease her and not for consumption?
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Well the good news is Sadie must be feeling perkier, but the bad news is poor bird. Did it survive?
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