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Dispatches from the Co-Prosperity Sphere

You keep whinging because we don't call enough. For heaven's sake, stop! We can't call because we're busy. Just look at what we're doing. Does it look like we have the time to sleep? Eat? Breathe? Let alone communication with the outside world! We're building empires! We're winning hearts and minds! We're forging ahead, confronting our demons, marching victoriously toward a grand and glorious new era! And we're doing it all from the comfort of the backyard hammock.

2.23.2007

Black Friday

Today when Peaches and I got home, there was a pack of dogs killing our chickens. It was not a pack of wild dogs; they were well fed, muscular, had glossy coats and they were wearing collars. Someone around here lets their dogs run loose.

We chased the dogs away. They'd dug under the fence and gotten into the yard. The chicken door is just big enough that a pit bull terrier can get through.

One silver-laced wyandotte and all three barred rocks were dead. Black Lucy the elder was wounded so badly that she wasn't going to live. We killed her quickly so that she wouldn't suffer.

One silver-laced wyandotte is wounded and acts as though she's sprained her left leg. I gave her some water and she perked up, but all the birds are obviously feeling shaken. Tomorrow, I'll assess her again. I hope that some rest will let her recover.

Tomorrow, I'm digging a ditch and pouring concrete.

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4 Comments:

Holly said...

I'm very sorry to hear about your chickens. Sad and infuriating.

10:20 PM  
L said...

:(

8:33 AM  
alleahna said...

I'm so sorry to hear about the attack on the chickens. If Mike and I can help with anything, let us know.

9:55 PM  
Ealasaid said...

That's horrible! I'm so sorry. :(

9:08 AM  

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