You know dogs have it good when they can go possum hunting from inside the house.
I feed my cats on the back porch, and they come up occasionally, so I keep food there for them. A passing possum will discover it from time to time, and show up on top of the table there.
These are the ugliest animals I have ever seen...
We can see the table and the pan that holds the cat food from the living room. Of course Abbey, Jack Russell and Buster a Blue Heeler are in the living room too. The double windows make a reflection from outside and you cannot see inside.
When the possum jumps up on the table, both dogs go flying to the back door, with the little one, Abbey pushing her nose tight against the crack of the door. No one is allowed to go out first, past her. I open the door and they spring out like Greyhounds at the race track.
This is the fastest possum I have ever seen. There is no rambling walk as he dives off the table, and skirts around the edge of the back porch, then hits the ground. He looks like he is running 20mph. The porch is really high, so if they can't catch him before he jumps, they have to come back and go around the steps. Where this possum goes after jumping, I have no idea, but the dogs can't find him. I believe that he is going up the Viburnum tree/bush at the corner of the house.
The possum must have dementia because here he comes back in about 30 minutes to face the same scenario.
When the dogs come back in the house, they go back and forth to 4 different floor length windows trying to get all angles from where they can see. Mostly they sit beside the window beside the TV cabinet, side by side as if they are watching a movie. Abbey growls like an alligator, and I know he is on his way back up.
They head to the back door, standing stiffly in a stalking position, and await for me to pull the door open once again. It is hilarious to watch them.
I feed my cats on the back porch, and they come up occasionally, so I keep food there for them. A passing possum will discover it from time to time, and show up on top of the table there.
These are the ugliest animals I have ever seen...
We can see the table and the pan that holds the cat food from the living room. Of course Abbey, Jack Russell and Buster a Blue Heeler are in the living room too. The double windows make a reflection from outside and you cannot see inside.
When the possum jumps up on the table, both dogs go flying to the back door, with the little one, Abbey pushing her nose tight against the crack of the door. No one is allowed to go out first, past her. I open the door and they spring out like Greyhounds at the race track.
This is the fastest possum I have ever seen. There is no rambling walk as he dives off the table, and skirts around the edge of the back porch, then hits the ground. He looks like he is running 20mph. The porch is really high, so if they can't catch him before he jumps, they have to come back and go around the steps. Where this possum goes after jumping, I have no idea, but the dogs can't find him. I believe that he is going up the Viburnum tree/bush at the corner of the house.
The possum must have dementia because here he comes back in about 30 minutes to face the same scenario.
When the dogs come back in the house, they go back and forth to 4 different floor length windows trying to get all angles from where they can see. Mostly they sit beside the window beside the TV cabinet, side by side as if they are watching a movie. Abbey growls like an alligator, and I know he is on his way back up.
They head to the back door, standing stiffly in a stalking position, and await for me to pull the door open once again. It is hilarious to watch them.
