No, YOU take the dog out.
"When I was at your house last week," the landscape contractor says to the husb, "I saw the weirdest thing."
A bobcat? No. A coyote? No. A dog? No.
"It looked like a black panther. Only I don't think it was a black panther. Except that's what it looked like."
Does jogger spray work on panthers?
I'm going to get my Great Pyrenees yet. And then I'm going to make him a harness and let Winston ride around on his back.
A black panther. If only a political joke could be made from this! Or a squirrel joke.
Not that the squirrels around here are pushovers.
That's all, g'night.
A bobcat? No. A coyote? No. A dog? No.
"It looked like a black panther. Only I don't think it was a black panther. Except that's what it looked like."
Does jogger spray work on panthers?
I'm going to get my Great Pyrenees yet. And then I'm going to make him a harness and let Winston ride around on his back.
A black panther. If only a political joke could be made from this! Or a squirrel joke.
Not that the squirrels around here are pushovers.
That's all, g'night.
posted by Katie Alender at
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Getting a Great Pyrenees might not be a bad idea! Not so long ago, a friend's cat was outside their house when a pit bull terrier they had never seen before attacked it. Their cat was killed along with several other small animals in the neighborhood. You just wonder what would have happened if that cat had been a toddler or a baby.
Friends who lived near the L.A. hills often had their cats caught and eaten by coyotes. It's just a matter of time before someone thinks of a street-smarts class for pets...
Are you serious? Was the contractor? Couldn't have been, right?
I thought you lived in the wilds of L.A., City Girl! What gives?
A panther? In Los Angeles?
Well, we had a moose get into someone's garden not too far from where I live. They had a newscrew go with animal control to film the tranqilizing of the animal. It was a great piece of film, as the moose charged, and the cameraman dropped his equipment and ran. They showed it on the news. (No one was hurt. The moose fell, unconscious, a few feet from where the cameraman had been. This film clip was added later.)
My dad once saw a mountain lion in a park (on a mountainside) only about a mile from where we lived, but it didn't get anywhere near the houses.
Wow. A panther would really be amazing.
Maybe he meant a Black Panther and not a black panther. One can only hope.
hey, i went to your blog through the book design review blog. maybe you'd like mine too...rekya.blogspot.com.
i like the look of your blog.
Mary, yes! Coyotes are everywhere. We often see them at night. I hate it when people don't control their dogs. We had a dog down the street -- a rescued terrier mix -- that would go crazy when it saw Winston or the husb -- it would spin in circles until it slipped its collar, and then it would rush them. It really would have killed Winston if it had gotten hold of him. Eventually they put it to sleep (!!) and got a new dog (!!!!!!), which also hates Winston. But at least this one stays on its lead.
Robing, I don't know. I do know that I've had panther dreams every night since then. But it's always about the thing he "really" saw. Last night it was a giant clownish grizzly bear.
PBW, we've had deer in our neighborhood as recently as a year and a half ago, and I hear that there was a mountain lion five years ago. It's fun to be surrounded by nature, but it also makes me a little paranoid. Always interesting to try to make out the pawprints on the back porch.
Christy, that is my hope, as well.
Bec, thanks! I'll check yours out. I'm glad you like the look. I've been itching to change things up, myself.
OMG. Crazy!!!
(Although I kinda wish one roamed in my neighborhood to rid me of my birdfood-stealing squirrels! *g)
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