We're back at our "other house" after a spell, and things need tending: The toilets tend to keep running without vigorous handle-jiggling, the new heater makes a lot of noise--too much?-- and the kitchen porch needs painting. These are all trivial matters to be expected in a 170-year-old property, but two things are more than a little disturbing: The first is the obvious lack of Rufus, our schnauzer who didn't make it through the winter to enjoy another spring in the country. Everywhere we look we see him running around, sniffing excitedly at all the singular smells and sneaking off to the horse paddock to do his business in private. The other is the half-eaten deer just beyond the swimming pool fence.
Naturally, being at heart city folks, we are grossed out by the sight and wonder what to do in order to get the carcass out of our view, certainly by the time we open the pool this year. But secretly I am caught up with thoughts of how he died, so close to the house. Was he being chased? Not likely, since he'd be the biggest thing in our jungle. Did he have a heart attack, or was he just old and ready to go? Was it perhaps Bambi's mother, who rightly warned against Man's return to the forest? Worse yet, was it Bambi?
Sometimes the circle of life is a little too evident.
that is intensely gross....sorry that was part of your weekend getaway. Call the Animal Warden to get rid of it!
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The local law is if it's on your property you have to (somehow) get it to the road and they will pick it up. You might remember...that is very far away in this case! We are leaving it to the local wildlife to feast upon....sad, but at least he's not garbage!
ReplyDeleteSomeone asked how a "deer that died can be half-eaten." It died whole, no doubt, then predators feasted on it. We got there after it had been half-eaten.
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