Our tortoise has been avoiding an area of our yard on her regular patrols for the last few days. It’s not her favorite spot but she never skips it, particularly when our rose is dropping petals as it is right now so I’ve been wondering if anything is up.
This morning we found two of our cats hovering around the single chink in our wall and behold, a very nervous looking rat with a branch from a sunflower plant from the front yard is stuffed into it.*
We’ll lock her up while we give the rat a chance to move on tonight; he’s not had a great day what with several cats chittering below him. But I’m wondering if she somehow knew to stay away from a possible predator? I don’t imagine it‘s the first day he’s checked out this plant, which has very recently begun to set seed.
*She’s got an motion-activated camera that we review, we aren’t casually leaving her outside.
This morning we found two of our cats hovering around the single chink in our wall and behold, a very nervous looking rat with a branch from a sunflower plant from the front yard is stuffed into it.*
We’ll lock her up while we give the rat a chance to move on tonight; he’s not had a great day what with several cats chittering below him. But I’m wondering if she somehow knew to stay away from a possible predator? I don’t imagine it‘s the first day he’s checked out this plant, which has very recently begun to set seed.
*She’s got an motion-activated camera that we review, we aren’t casually leaving her outside.