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George_J
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A Little Pandemonium
« on: Sep 6th, 2007, 10:32am » |
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...and a bloody lip.
At 3:30 this morning, we were woken up by considerable hell-raising from Ellen's chicken coop. Something was trying to get in, and the chickens were objecting.
In the process of rousting myself, one of the cats decided to use my lip as a launching pad to boost herself up to the window to see what the heck was going on. A cat's just got to know these things, you understand.
After pasting a tissue to my lip and hunting up a flashlight, I opened the door. Whatever it was had managed to open the door to the chicken coop, and a chicken was waiting at the back door. It shot inside the house to find a place to hide. Can't say I blame her.
So before I went to see what was happening out there, I had to chase a chicken around the house and shove her under my arm. Armed with a flashlight and a chicken, I went to do battle with the midnight marauder. Nothing. Whatever it was (probably a fox) had lit out. Everybody was stirred up, but no one was injured, except me.
I'm fortifying the door to the chicken coop this morning in order to render it impregnable to fox-kind. No more of this late-night brouhaha. I'm getting too old for it.
Like I said, probably a fox. If my flashlight had shown the eyeshine of one of the cougars that occasionally wander in from the foothills around here, I believe I'd have allowed him to have a chicken, and welcome to it.
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George
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Re: A Little Pandemonium
« Reply #1 on: Sep 6th, 2007, 10:35am » |
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Oh my gosh...that is too funny! I almost spit out the water in my mouth when I read the part about you having the chicken under one arm and holding a flash light!
That's a good laugh! Thank you for sharing!
Edited to add: Glad that everyone is ok!
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Re: A Little Pandemonium
« Reply #2 on: Sep 6th, 2007, 10:36am » |
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Shoot I'd have tossed him the one under my arm! 
Thems some mean cats when they are hungry. get a good rifle and be ready next time ... hopefully you wont have to use it though.
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Re: A Little Pandemonium
« Reply #3 on: Sep 6th, 2007, 10:43am » |
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I am glad no one was hurt...
That being said...that was sooo funny...the cat using your "lip" as a launching pad....and it just went from there...
Thanks for the laughter!!! Yeah...definatley a shotgun for an un-expected cougar...that will definately stop anyone in their tracks.
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on Sep 6th, 2007, 10:32am, George_J wrote:... If my flashlight had shown the eyeshine of one of the cougars that occasionally wander in from the foothills around here, I believe I'd have allowed him to have a chicken, and welcome to it.
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I would have offered to barbecue it for him and servce with chilled wine.
Nice cougar..........Nice cougar
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Re: A Little Pandemonium
« Reply #5 on: Sep 7th, 2007, 8:28am » |
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George, you have a real gift with writing. Its always such a pleasure reading your pen work !
You really should be writing and publishing, the world is missing out here 
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Re: A Little Pandemonium
« Reply #6 on: Sep 7th, 2007, 9:51pm » |
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Funny!
reminds me of the old Jerry Clower story of Clovis Ledbetter being late to school because of plucking chickens. It seems a fox got in the chicken house and Pa Ledbetter went out there with a double barreled shotgun and the dog cold-nosed him under the night shirt. So they were plucking chickens.
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Re: A Little Pandemonium
« Reply #7 on: Sep 7th, 2007, 10:11pm » |
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LOL... I think you need yerself a Foghorn Leghorn in that henhouse.
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