tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post732945820097195010..comments2023-10-31T15:39:09.651+01:00Comments on box elder: Other beasts at KerbiriouLucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-72782841111059737442016-06-07T02:49:58.860+02:002016-06-07T02:49:58.860+02:00I like the life and character that comes across in...I like the life and character that comes across in your photos. Especially the dramatic photos of the cat, and the second one of the shrew investigating.HKatzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17653570160517335758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-34555739658824309882016-05-31T08:13:25.108+02:002016-05-31T08:13:25.108+02:00Oh my gosh, what a handsome, striking ram.
I just...Oh my gosh, what a handsome, striking ram.<br /><br />I just looked him up in a book of heritage livestock; apparently he and his fellow hail from an island off Finistère. I've been taking an interest in heritage livestock lately, so I'm delighted to see that you've actually met one of these wonderfully uncommercial breeds...Jeffhttp://www.quidplura.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-79261971617119819532016-05-26T01:17:48.739+02:002016-05-26T01:17:48.739+02:00Lucy, I would read every book you write about anim...Lucy, I would read every book you write about animals, supposing you did write such books. And why not?Natalie d'Arbeloffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07757081405040926647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-2665611038271788862016-05-25T00:10:26.807+02:002016-05-25T00:10:26.807+02:00When we lived in Mexico our cat Chulapay used to c...When we lived in Mexico our cat Chulapay used to climb the wrought iron window frames to the roof. She disappeared once for several days and about the time we decided she was gone for good she just showed up. We think she got into a closet or something and was shut in. She never told us.<br /><br />That ram is quite a creature but he looks a bit horny. ;^/Catalysthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03804837416104556928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-43369739049953661662016-05-23T17:10:58.912+02:002016-05-23T17:10:58.912+02:00I love the cat on roof picture: the different text...I love the cat on roof picture: the different textures of the tiles and then the centered silhouette is very satisfying.Nimblehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16426446791363667887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-40674809768058082692016-05-23T09:22:36.473+02:002016-05-23T09:22:36.473+02:00Enjoyable post, Lucy. Our Roxy would be after anyt...Enjoyable post, Lucy. Our Roxy would be after anything small and furry at just below the speed of light (keeping just this side of invisibility, as RR mentions). She is a sight hound, will freeze onto something and then fly for it. <br />I remember one of our GSDs who went for a cat, which held its ground. The dog adjusted its charge round the cat and went onwards as if to say, "I was going elsewhere anyway". The cat remained sitting. I guess if it had run the dog would have chased it.Avushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16512540148378201058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-27784579742332651562016-05-22T17:22:15.932+02:002016-05-22T17:22:15.932+02:00Once when Ysabelle was still in single figures she...Once when Ysabelle was still in single figures she and I saw what I now take to be a shrew making hard work of the deep snow at the top of a ski-lift. Y watched with sustained fascination and I - with all the bogus confidence of a townie out of his element - identified it as a vole. Back at the apartment I asked Y whether she'd passed on the experience to her mother, Occasional Speeder. Excited, Y said; "Mum, Mum, Big Grandad and I saw a vowel."<br /><br />OS and I exchanged what can only be described as "a suppressed look". It was vital we did not laugh. One of those moments when a word (in this case a word meaning) passes into the family vocabulary and remains there for ever and a day.<br /><br />Yet another story subscribing to the belief that cats can see off dogs. Sometimes, perhaps. My mother had a black-and-white cat notorious for its aggression. It was in the backyard when my great pal turned up with his family pet, a copper coloured old English (Englysshe?) sheepdog - not a beast one associates with unbelievable acceleration. The sight of the cat was enough and this hairy projectile - feet not touching the floor - hurled itself forward while the cat, sneers disdained, turned on a sixpence, and flew... but where? The yard was confined, yet sufficient to demonstrate this was a race to the death. Had the dog caught the cat the two animals might have fused, such was the combined energy involved. Clearly my eyes were not up to following these events. Suddenly all was quiet and the cat was nowhere; it was difficult to rid my mind of the conviction that the cat had run into the coal-cellar wall and the dog, mouth open, had absorbed its remains.<br /><br />These days I have a different theory. Travelling close to the speed of light the cat unwittingly went just a little faster, offended Einsteinian physics and simply disappeared. Exhilarating while it lasted, say, 0.75 second. <br /><br />Handsome? The ram, I mean. Fiction allows me to imagine the ram (Oh come on, he's dead ugly.) turning the speeding duo above into a speeding trio. And my mother facing a bill for wall repairs.<br /><br />That head looks indestructible. Doubt that he's the sort of creatue prepared to discuss knitting. Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-25669139844788535972016-05-22T15:34:14.141+02:002016-05-22T15:34:14.141+02:00All animals are well established as part of the ho...All animals are well established as part of the hosting staff. <br /><br />Sorry about Tom's sleeve mole. (slight shudder)Zhoenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03515663141425057088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-70727144873975708602016-05-21T22:57:34.848+02:002016-05-21T22:57:34.848+02:00as i'm currently in the market for a new lawnm...as i'm currently in the market for a new lawnmower (our previous abode having only a balcony, there was no need of one), and i think i shall look into a handsome fellow like this! perhaps the neighbours will object, but as the neighbourhood kids laughed at mr. monkey's beloved volvo the other day, calling it a hearse, it shouldn't be too much of a problem - clearly we're already the oddballs here!the polish chickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09929281676865641560noreply@blogger.com