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It's 1000 hrs and I still haven't moved from my chair since 0600 hrs this morning, and the wife has an IV in my arm to the pot of coffee on the stove so as it percolates it feeds me, I'm on pot number 2 right about now. Give me a few I will be moving. That 18 hour shift was brutal.
 

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Leo and I went for an extended walk across the property diagonally. 48+- acres. My knees and feet didn’t act up, no bug bites. Leo blazed the way, searched for sheep (who were chuckling at the top of the hill we’d just started from). Found a missing ram lamb, expired and stuffed under a fallen tree. Wondering about a mountain lion. Smitty and Crockett always patrolled that area and kept the sheep away from it. It’s pretty down there but a stout hike back up a steep (to me born in the flatlands) hillside. Moses is getting the hang of things and is less standoffish. He and Sophie play while Leo watches and Caddo has a pained expression (youth is wasted on the young). Have a great weekend everybody. :weee
 

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Leo and I went for an extended walk across the property diagonally. 48+- acres. My knees and feet didn’t act up, no bug bites. Leo blazed the way, searched for sheep (who were chuckling at the top of the hill we’d just started from). Found a missing ram lamb, expired and stuffed under a fallen tree. Wondering about a mountain lion. Smitty and Crockett always patrolled that area and kept the sheep away from it. It’s pretty down there but a stout hike back up a steep (to me born in the flatlands) hillside. Moses is getting the hang of things and is less standoffish. He and Sophie play while Leo watches and Caddo has a pained expression (youth is wasted on the young). Have a great weekend everybody. :weee
Hummmmm

Interesting thought... (about the expired lamb)

I am glad the dogs are settling in with each other.
 

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Hummmmm

Interesting thought... (about the expired lamb)

I am glad the dogs are settling in with each other.
There was one periodically at the old place, late winter usually. My neighbor saw it in a tree. He was an experienced woodsman and knew what he was looking at. I once saw a jaguarundi even if the state says there aren’t any. Our game camera snapped a fuzzy photo ( here)- hell that may be what ate up the chickens, I didn’t think of that. That makes sense. The jag couldn’t have gotten the ram lamb but chickens would be perfect.
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Cougar makes sense. Sorry about the lamb. That means it will be back for more. @Blue Sky is your property cross fenced or one big pasture? Do your sheep come in for the night?
When we lived in Lindale, a cougar wiped out a neighbor’s goat herd. It screamed all around our place but never came in. Our dogs were barking crazy, warning the cougar away.
A Jaguarundi is super protected. Huge fine and prison time for killing one. Where was your previous place? They are only supposed to be in Deep South Texas.
 
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