Cathy and the burn pile

[genebo]

Caethru Inion of Paradise is called Cathy, but with her curiosity, she should be called "Cat".

The burn pile was no sooner lit than she was there, checking it out. She had never seen fire before and I was worried that she might get too close. She did, but I ran her away. She wasn't showing fear like I thought she should.

The whole herd was excited by the fire. McBrenn wanted to dance with it. He buck-jumped around the pile, tossing his head like he was challenging it to battle. The cows stampeded around it.

[Blessings Farms]

Thats a southern Dexter for you they had to warm up at 70 deg.
Ours are already getting winter coat hope that is not a sign .

[lakeportfarms]

That's funny Dave.

We used to have many piles of brush to burn from clearing out the orchard and our cows would be curious as well. It made me think about "Boots" (RIP) my super smart barn cat. I would light a pile of brush, and Boots would be there to catch the mice who had made their home in the pile over the weeks that it had been sitting waiting to be burned. I'd walk over to another pile to light it, and Boots would follow me there too. He was one fat cat that day!

Boots had about 100 lives...but we have an adjoining neighbor who has a fetish for shooting things. One day he slipped and mentioned how he hates cats, they carry disease and stuff. I then mentioned how Boots had been missing for a week and gave Boots' description. They guy kept telling me he "saw Boots around yesterday...etc" every time I'd happen to see him when I was out by the fence line. I know he shot him. He has a few screws loose upstairs. I have a mind to go and collect a bunch of barn cats from everybody and turn them all loose around his property. If he wasn't at the far corner of the property I'd wean a bunch of calves nearby.

[otf]

Hans, the only problem with turning out barn cats is he'd shoot them too! I once knew of a donkey breeder who tossed afterbirths over the fence line to her neighbor's property. Now there's a unique way to get even.

Gale

[lakeportfarms]

Gale, I don't understand the afterbirth, other than it would smell possibly?

This neighbor has a measly two acres, yet he thinks that he has all the same abilities as a larger property holder would. He has a mound of dirt in the back corner (facing our property) that he shoots into for his target practice. He has a skeet launcher and I've seen him out there shooting clay pigeons. There are all sorts of loud explosions of some kind or another going off from time to time, and I can't imagine that they are any kind of gun that anybody other than the government could purchase or own, so it must be something other than that. All of the nearby property owners hate him. He claims to be a Iraq or Afghanistan sniper or maybe it was a Army Ranger or something. Most of that caliber don't go around bragging about it from my experience. I don't think he could have passed the physical or psychological tests to be one on top of it.

So he seems a bit unhinged and a little bit scary to be around. A month or two ago Sheril and I took down and replaced the fence that borders his property and put up a 6 wire high tensile fence. He came out furious and said we can't remove the fence, etc... We suspected he would give us a hard time so I had the Sheriff Dept on speed dial and I called the minute he came storming out (pistol in his waistband).

I don't mind guns at all, but guns in the hands of somebody like that actually are a problem.

[otf]

Sorry Hans, I omitted that the donkey person's neighbor used to toss grass clippings, shrub trimmings, yard waste, etc., over the fence into the donkeys' pasture, things that might have been harmful to the donkeys. So the donkey owner got even with the afterbirths, which would attract vultures and other carrion eaters; it wouldn't last long, but it might make things unpleasant for a bit. Just the usual good/bad neighbor crap. I'd take that over your neighbor any day!

Gale