Strange things your pets do...

[oosik]

Not one of my pets but a young coyote learned a valuable lesson this morning. I have a ten acre lake just off my front porch. Right now it's ice covered with 6" of fresh snow and it's still snowing. I know that the ice is around 1/2" thick - or less. The young coyote ventured out on the lake - a short cut - going across rather than going all the way around. He got out about 25' to 30' and the ice must have either cracked or started to break up under his weight and the weight of the new fallen snow. He turned tail and it looked like a 4-legged buzz saw. He stood on the shore quite a while looking back out on the lake - where he had been. Picture off my front porch. Summer & winter.

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[two_bit_score]

Beautiful scenery oosik! :thumbsup:

 

[goeduck]

Yes, beautiful!

 

[oosik]

My previous dog - Chocolate Lab - would stomp thru the cattails on this end of the lake and end up wandering around out on the ice. It got so I only take him out to the lake in the summer. My current dog - Chocolate Cocker Spaniel - has no desire to climb down the cliffs and get out on the ice. He stands with me on the cliffs and he will bark. I think hearing his bark echo around the cliffs on the lake makes him feel BIG. Whatever - it's a real relief.

The lake has been the undoing of quite a few animals. I find them floating on the surface after the ice goes out in the spring. Cows, deer & coyote.

The lake is fed by springs on this end. While the ice can get up to 14" thick - the area directly over the many springs will remain thin as a sheet of Suran Wrap. Snow will fall and the spring areas become completely undetectable. It's Natures own death trap.

 

[Alien]

We have a chinese crested that insists it is time to go to bed. He sleeps on his mattress beside our bed. He spins around and runs down the hallway to our bedroom door and turns to see if we are following. If not, he comes back to the lounge room and looks at us and spins round and runs to our bedroom door again and stands there looking at us. When we go for our showers/bed he hops onto his bed and goes to sleep.

 

[Dftodd]

We have a chinese crested that insists it is time to go to bed. He sleeps on his mattress beside our bed. He spins around and runs down the hallway to our bedroom door and turns to see if we are following. If not, he comes back to the lounge room and looks at us and spins round and runs to our bedroom door again and stands there looking at us. When we go for our showers/bed he hops onto his bed and goes to sleep.

I have to provide 1 toll bone (dental treat) before I can enter the bedroom at bedtime She sits in the middle of the doorway and will not move

She's also a typical girl and loves to shop. She has to inspect and root through bags when they are brought into the house.

She also loves her boys

 

[Citydude]

I have to provide 1 toll bone (dental treat) before I can enter the bedroom at bedtime She sits in the middle of the doorway and will not move

She's also a typical girl and loves to shop. She has to inspect and root through bags when they are brought into the house.

She also loves her boys

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Our one year old Boston expects us to pay an ice cube toll when we get ice out of the fridge. He stands at attention, gets his cube and runs off with his prize.

 

[Dftodd]

Our one year old Boston expects us to pay an ice cube toll when we get ice out of the fridge. He stands at attention, gets his cube and runs off with his prize.

I forgot about that toll. We have to pay that one as well. Then there is the meat tax and tater chip tax. The tater chip tax is double the meat tax.

There are penalties for not paying the tater chip tax. Usually results in an 80lb shepherd in your lap hoovering your shirt Although doritos result with the shepherd in the lap whether you pay the toll or not

 

[goeduck]

She's also a typical girl and loves to shop. She has to inspect and root through bags when they are brought into the house.

Any package that comes into the house my border collie will sniff it for minutes. My Heeler bumps them with her nose to see if they are alive I guess.

 

[Dftodd]

Any package that comes into the house my border collie will sniff it for minutes. My Heeler bumps them with her nose to see if they are alive I guess.

We have the life 360 app on our phones to keep track of the grandkids. I have mine set up to alert when one of the kids shows up or leaves the house.

Gypsy knows the tone my phone makes. If my phone makes that tone, she knows momma or one of her kids has arrived. She will stop what she's doing and go wait by the front door.