Apr 03 2009
Deer?
Scout woke me up around 2 a.m. this morning. She needed to go outside. She goes through phases where she will wake me up every night and then it stops for a while. I have learned not to totally wake up when I take her out and then I normally just go right back to sleep. Jack heard us go outside and he decided he needed to go, too. They both did their business and then we heard this loud noise. Something was running on the outside of the fence. We have a 6′ privacy fence, so we cannot see through it. The dogs were upset to hear this noise and it made me nervous. It went on for what seemed liked a long time, but was probably on a few seconds. Scout barked and it stopped. It started up again after she quit barking. I kept yelling at the dogs to come in, but they ignored me. They are like cats in that they ignore me if they feel like it. They finally came in and I am assuming that the noise we heard were deer. What else could it have been? It was large and made a lot of noise as it ran by.
The incident last night caused me to think about something that happened a few years ago. I walked outside and found some rather large hoof marks in our yard. The tracks went all around our house and really tore up the yard. The tracks even went in between our camper and house. I couldn’t figure out what it could have been. If it were deer, they were huge deer. I was concerned all day about what could have been in our yard. As soon as Hubby came home, I immediately showed him the tracks. He started laughing at me. He said he had seen some cows on our road when he left for work. He never imagined that they would come through our yard. We do not even know where the cows came from. There are not any cows around that we know of and to this day, we still don’t know where the cows are. I wish I would have seen the cows walk by my window. I can only imagine what my reaction would have been. I have seen turkey, deer, rabbits, turtles, raccoons, opossums outside my window, but never a cow. LOL
