Well, it's May 15th and we still haven't moved the cows from their winter quarters to their summer home. It's been too cold and wet to do so but it hasn't stopped me from hoping we get this job crossed off on the Spring To-Do list soon. And I'm not the only one wishing the cows were here already.
Our overgrown pup Bandit is wanting the move to be done too.
Why? Because then he gets to really R-U-N.
Bandit is a runner. He loves to run. Distances too. He regularly races the 4-wheeler when we go out to get cows. He'll come from wherever he is and leave whatever grand thing he's doing when he hears that machine turn on because he knows he's going to get a good workout. (If Bandit is flat out running, you need to be in 3rd gear in order to even think of catching up to the dog.) And he's showing some promise as a herding animal. We'll see if he improved at all from last year.
I'm also hoping that if the cows are here and Bandit gets his daily runs in, it'll leave his jaws chicken-free. I don't appreciate his sudden urge to use my best laying hen as a chew toy...(No worries. The hen escaped relatively unscathed. She was minus a few feathers and went into hiding for a day to overcome her shock of being in a set of large, rather pointy teeth but she's since made a full recovery and is back to faithfully laying an egg every day or so.)
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