Miss Sadie and the Cowboy spent all day yesterday enjoying the nice weather out on the deck. I realize that Miss Sadie’s ears are back, but that’s because she does not particularly like being photographed.
The Cowboy ignored the camera. He was a resolute Watch Spaniel. No chipmunks would be allowed on the premises.
We had some fine walks and slept well. Today has been overcast with a bit of rain, and we have been sulking around indoors. I am not looking forward to telling them that I am going for a ride without them and won’t be home until late.
Over at Margie Guyot’s place it was another story entirely. She writes: Just looked up from my computer and saw a strange sight. There’s the rabbit I’d let go last week (lower left), Butterfly (one of the young female cats), and Picasso (b&w cat on the far right), watching a deer (peeking out from the trees in the back). A second or two later a 2nd deer came by.
The cats don’t know what to think of the rabbit. They want to sniff it. Sometimes they chase it. Sometimes it chases them! I see Miss America and the rabbit are nose to nose out there now. It’s as big as the cats (in fact, bigger than the 2 young females). Too funny!
Looks to me for all the world as if Butterfly the Cat is sequestered inside a chicken wire fence while the Nameless Rabbit keeps watch. Things are different out on the Flat Road.
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Martha
March 22, 2012
Wow. What a scene! Is that chicken wire separating them? It’s hard to tell. If not, all I can say is Wow. My cats would be half way down the road chasing the rabbit and the dog would be next in line.
I love rabbits and that one is just spectacularly adorable! Wow!
Gerry
March 22, 2012
I think I see chicken wire, but I think the cat is inside and the rabbit outside. Who knows. The rabbit definitely has character.
Belinda
March 22, 2012
What an interesting picture! I like how every animal looks so intent.
Gerry
March 22, 2012
Maybe this is what happens when the predators are smaller and weaker than the prey. Sort of a watchful standoff. Or maybe those are just very well-fed cats.
Sybil
March 22, 2012
“Let the rabbit go”?
Gerry
March 22, 2012
It had to be free.
milkayphoto
March 22, 2012
So glad I popped by today! Was worth it for the rabbit/cats/deer story and the accompanying pics! 🙂
Gerry
March 22, 2012
You just never know what you’re likely to run into over here. Painters who keep chickens and let rabbits go. Writers who keep dogs and let housework go. Farmers who keep the rest of us in excellent treats. It’s all good.
lynnekovan
March 23, 2012
Love the picture with all the animals in it. It could be a puzzle: spot the deer, cat(s), rabbit!
Gerry
March 23, 2012
I thought that too. I kept thinking “Deer? What deer?” It was a relief when I found it.
Joss
March 23, 2012
So that’s a wild rabbit, is it? With those markings it looks like it must have been bred to show. I’ve never seen a rabbit like that before. Our wild ones are all just grey here. We used to have badgers come into our garden, and these photos remind me how stupid I was never to take any pictures of them. It’s not like me at all. What was I thinking?
Gerry
March 23, 2012
I don’t know that it wasn’t born a domesticated rabbit. The rabbits I see are all the conventionally gray/beige/brown variety – as best I can tell as they dash off through the underbrush while the Duo whimper and pull on their leash.
I long to see a badger. I’ve been told that I would stop longing pretty quickly if one ever came to live nearby, but I figure that it could fight it out with the skunks and the porcupines and the coyotes.
I expect you were thinking that you would observe and learn, rather than that you would document and perhaps forget. Sometimes I think that I’ve deposited all my memories onto SD cards, leaving my head curiously untethered.
Fee
March 24, 2012
We used to have a rabbit that regularly scared the poop out of our little cat. They were about the same size, and the cat knew, somehow, that the innocent-looking, fluffy thing with the big ears was bad news. She avoided him like the plague!
Gerry
March 24, 2012
You have given me an idea. Perhaps long, long ago there was a great plague that devastated the cat kingdom. As it happens, rabbits were immune to the plague, but the cats jumped to the conclusion that the rabbits must have brought them the plague. They’ve been afraid of them ever since. Well, it could have happened that way.
shoreacres
March 24, 2012
That’s a city rabbit. That’s why the cats don’t bother it. They know it’s been to the self-defense class down at the Y, and probably has a concealed carry license. Who knows what’s in those ears?
Gerry
March 24, 2012
See I think we’re onto something here. Animals have more to think about than we suspect.
isathreadsoflife
April 10, 2012
United Nations of Animals ! What a rare and beautiful sight !
Gerry
April 10, 2012
It is worth noting that they are all very well-fed animals. Imagine what the world would be like if everyone had enough to eat and clean water to drink.