We took Skip to the vet on Wednesday to be neutered. The instructions for Skip were as follows: no running, jumping, or playing. Keep him dry and warm and quiet. YEAH RIGHT! Today is wet and misty and Skip never felt better. Just now I could hear him strangling a chicken AGAIN. The other day I heard him -- anyway I was pretty sure I heard him messing with the chicken. Oh -- I have to tell you first that we had let our chickens out the other day and this one Rhode Island Red - one of our best layers-- didn't come back to the coop that night. She has been out ever since --- roaming the trees and happy as a lark! I finally KNEW that he was messing with the chicken when I watched him come to the house carrying the chicken by it's head!! I ran outside, Skip let go and the chicken ran away.
Well --- as I said - just now I heard the squawking (muffled squawking) again. Right outside the trailer. I ran out just to see the chicken get away from Skip and run under the deck. She was pretty wet and ruffled looking but very much alive. She came a little too close to me and I grabbed her legs.
She is now back in the coop with the other chickens. I watched to see if they would think she was a stranger and attack her.....but no --- she went right in to eating and they just followed suit. So I guess all is well and hopefully we have our good layer back. Kind of wonder if there are a batch of eggs out there that she might have been sitting on. Oh well!
Skip lucked out pretty good ---- had he killed the chicken he would have been beaten with the dead thing. Toby could tell him all about that!!! Toby leaves the chickens alone!!!
On another note...... I have graduated from therapy and no longer go. I still do the exercises at home plus our Tia Bo in the morning. I am walking pretty good now (not so much of the penguin walk anymore).
Guess that's about it for now....... Release Time has finished, but we still go to the Detention Center. We had 3 girls and about 6 boys after that. A couple of the girls need our prayers!!! One wrote on her prayer request that she was considering ending her life. We let the Officers know ---- they already knew and someone had come in to talk with her. They do have a group come in (anyway they have had) that addresses just that issue.
The boys enjoyed singing, but we need to discuss that with them a little bit. One was singing the words ahead of me and getting everyone mixed up. I think it was for show/attention.
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