OH NO!!!!

Last night, Becky and I were returning from an afternoon of shopping.  She had to make a quick stop at her house to change into her work clothes before dropping me off at my house.  Becky still had pig chores to do which included checking on her newest piglets which were born earlier in the morning.  Two sows had already farrowed and two were getting close. 

 

first sow of four to farrow this cycle

piglets crowding under the heat lamp



check out one of the four new farrowing pens...pretty fancy!

We both hate shopping, but she needed to find a dress for an upcoming event.  She purchased the first dress she saw, albeit we had continued the search to several other shops, when we returned to the first shop several hours later. We were very exhausted and very hungry.  We ate lunch at 6:30 PM.

 

Driving the country road between our homes, in the dark, Becky slowed down as she approached a sharp turn.

 

There…right in front of us, a cat crossed our path…low to the pavement and stealthy.

 

It was not any ordinary household cat, not even a stray tomcat…it was a BOBCAT!

 

This bobcat, I believe, was the first bobcat I had ever really seen in the ‘wild’.

 

Today, as I relayed the incident to Glenn, I had a troubling thought.  That bobcat was only about one short mile, as the ’crow flies’ or as the bobcat prowls, to our sheep.

 

Are you getting the picture?