- May 24, 2012
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...while I was in the shower. It was BAD, and I couldn't make sense of it--my runs are pretty safe, but still a work in progress. But in my (limited experience), the birds get real quiet if a predator arrives. I have some chicks down in the basement. Wondered if the dogs had gotten in there somehow. Couldn't tell exactly where the sound was coming from, but it was loud and tortured.
Threw on robe, ran out. Dogs were all lying around, doing their own thing. Weird, because door to deck was open, and they could run out and see the chickens from there if something was going on. Basement door was closed and locked. Went out to the coops, birds were calm and strolling around... then I heard that screaming again. Now coming from in the house. Maybe my disabled Pomeranian was injured? Ran back inside.
OMG. I had given the dogs a new toy this morning from the clearance bin at Pets Mart. No wonder it was on sale. Has the most awful, amplified squeak range I have ever heard on a dog toy....and there was my largest dog, lying on his bed and coaxing a concert out of it... Ah well, it's Monday. Better to feel like a fool than to have actually lost birds...
Threw on robe, ran out. Dogs were all lying around, doing their own thing. Weird, because door to deck was open, and they could run out and see the chickens from there if something was going on. Basement door was closed and locked. Went out to the coops, birds were calm and strolling around... then I heard that screaming again. Now coming from in the house. Maybe my disabled Pomeranian was injured? Ran back inside.
OMG. I had given the dogs a new toy this morning from the clearance bin at Pets Mart. No wonder it was on sale. Has the most awful, amplified squeak range I have ever heard on a dog toy....and there was my largest dog, lying on his bed and coaxing a concert out of it... Ah well, it's Monday. Better to feel like a fool than to have actually lost birds...