Now some of you may recall I said I would always respond by “checking it out” to discover what the “it” is when my dogs bark at night!
OK so the night before last they set about alerting me at 4:20am and no surprise my reaction was “Quiet” in my not so polite English! Then I thought “hang on a minute this is not just the Setters being daft, the Terriers are barking too” - now with the Terriers being so lazy and once settled appear fixed in place, I thought best check this out after all.
It was not yet dawn - so true that we learn something new everyday! The Chickens were making much noise so I went out to check why they were awake so early. Mr Fox had clearly been very brave and tried to get an early breakfast! I let the hens out and checked about, no more sign of Fox, guess he ran away very quickly upon hearing a pack of dogs after him….wonder if they inherit instinct to avoid hounds learned from the Fox Hunting days, now of course officially banned in the UK countryside! Of course I couldn’t actually let my dogs chase off the fox as they would have to pass by the hens - defeating the object as they would too eat the hens!
Anyway good news, all hens safe and sound following much time spent by me trying to fix the pen making it fox-proof, this now looks a bit like a scrap merchants yard as I cobbled together bits and pieces from around the house/garden as defences! The fence itself was ripped apart - cheek of this Fox that’s my fence! Will be getting in extra supplies of chicken wire at weekend to mend the pen properly!
And guess who didn’t get out of bed to see-off Mr Fox - Yep that’ll be Peter the Fox Terrier! Oh well Peter we do call you “Lazy Boy”!
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