Animals (of a domestic variety)

Africa isn´t Africa without some animal stories... :)

At home we don´t have a guard dog (yet), but we do have 4 domestic rabbits who moved in to eat the grass and generally provide much amusement. Mostly because they actually don´t all get on with each other and 2 of them spend their entire lives chasing each other round. I´ve called them Mopsy (black and white), Flopsy (grey and always cleaning her ears), Topsy (tan coloured) and then there´s another black one that I am yet to name. Mopsy hangs around with Flopsy and everytime Topsy comes near, Mopsy goes quite literally psycho and chases Topsy off, not caring for any humans that might be in their path!!!

Their other favourite activity is taunting the 2 huge dogs that live nearby and can´t get at them. The more the dogs bark, the closer the rabbits lay themselves down in the sun near the fence as if to taunt the dogs! :)

We also had a rooster and some hens that wandered across our land. The rooster will attack if you get too close or try to hang washing out etc. When I was in bed the other morning he started crowing outside my window at about 4am and apparently I later commented to the Lionsraw boys that the rooster was going to die if he carried on like that.

Anyway, 2 days ago there were a lot of white feathers on the grass outside my cottage and all the way up to the front gate. Just under the orange trees there lay one very dead rooster.

IT WAS NOT ME!!!

Some animal had had a fight on its hands. Being English we didn´t really know what to do with the creature but before we had time to decide, something else had taken the decision out of our hands and the bird was gone.

The boys still think I am the chicken-killer though...