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07-20-2014, 08:52 PM
Congratulations! You have just won the award for the most interesting first hike!
You know when I go to the hay barn every other day, there's an escaped black rabbit that sits in the same spot by the path. She just sits there even as my German Shep walks past her. The dog chased her out of the bushes once when she first showed up. The dog thought it was a cat but it was so slow that she just trotted behind it with her nose on it trying to figure out what the heck it was. Fortunately I've trained her to avoid the critter under penalty of doom.
It sounds like you were just in a world of natural enemies behaving with restraint and lack of it, too. The wolf dog that should bite the goat. The coyote that should have but didn't. The goat that should fear the coyote but didn't (and also disobeys the human). Such interesting dynamics right there.
You know when I go to the hay barn every other day, there's an escaped black rabbit that sits in the same spot by the path. She just sits there even as my German Shep walks past her. The dog chased her out of the bushes once when she first showed up. The dog thought it was a cat but it was so slow that she just trotted behind it with her nose on it trying to figure out what the heck it was. Fortunately I've trained her to avoid the critter under penalty of doom.
It sounds like you were just in a world of natural enemies behaving with restraint and lack of it, too. The wolf dog that should bite the goat. The coyote that should have but didn't. The goat that should fear the coyote but didn't (and also disobeys the human). Such interesting dynamics right there.