Wednesday 30 March 2011

Sacrificial Altar

I was wondering if the children had taken up voodoo.

Yesterday I was once again reduced to wandering the site with my Tesco Halloween bucket, desperately trying to locate eggs... Seriously, you start to understand why egg farmers restrict movement of these feathered hide and seek experts. As my girls are proper unrestricted free-rangers, my production line is occasionally challenged when their hiding is good and my seeking is poor!

Anyhoo I decided to check the sproglet's field shelter Den, which is dry and cosy and lined with straw. A perfect place for egg laying. (Even if it does pong a bit where they've been making mud pies with horse manure! They're inventive OK! We've had no rain for mud pies and they needed a moist material....but I 'spose they ought to be called poo pies...... shudder)



All looked neat and tidy, no eggs sadly, but then I looked a bit more thoroughly..... there were dead bodies everywhere, rabbit pelt, moles and weeny mice. 'Scusting. What were those children up to?



I asked the 8yo and the 6yo for an explanation when I picked them up last night. They looked blank but it all became clear today.

As we headed off on school early this morning we spied Benny carrying the biggest rabbit in his jaws. It was so big he was walking like he was wearing a full nappy and the bottom end of the rabbit was dragging on the ground.

He was heading in the general direction of the den....... to the sacrificial altar..... Yuck!

This is how the evil monster looks most of the time....


10 comments:

  1. yet one more reason I will never, ever own a cat. that's horrifying!

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  2. awesome! love me some benny -- benny and his bunny! now, you've probably been asked the a dozen times, but does benny get along with you "girls" and their free range activities? just curious ...

    ;)

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  3. I'm So Fancy: True but the mole murdering is wonderful news for our lawns..and the rabbit murdering is just a drop in the ocean, one more lettuce for me! Rats and mice are just a billy-bonus really!

    Jg. for FatScribe: He is awesome actually. Both cats have got previous where the chickens are concerned, they tried to chase them when they were kittens but the chickens beat them up so Benny and Tabby take a wide berth now. They would definitely kill all chicks so we'll keep all babies in pens till they're as big as Archie.... (Archinda!)

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  4. Shouldn't Benny be a lot fatter? :) I know it's gross, but it's nature...and he's doing his job. We always had cats when I lived in Michigan and we had a barn....

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  5. Erm, not sure what I think, better than a ton of chocolate and a trap - at least he's tidy...xx

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  6. Hi, Lou -- just as an fyi Re: Brankton Walks Austin. Started it as a writing exercise, and had some interest from a mag in the states for short story. On the left-hand side of the FatScribe is a section where Parts 1 -> ? can be found! Humbled you found it interesting ...

    ;)

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  7. Murder most foul! Yet he looks so innocent and sweet.

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  8. are you sure you havent got a owl in the eaves?

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  9. What a fab hunter cat you have there. Wow

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  10. I won't tell you the story of how my barn cat murdered 5 baby bunnies or brought a live quail into the house thru the dog door.

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