Just a Little "Fowl" Play

This week started out with MANY birds in our midst!! I am beginning to wonder if our house isn't like the Alfred Hitchcock movie, The Birds!  Sunday afternoon, going to dinner a Canadian Goose skimmed the top of Brett's car as it was flying out of the pond. On the way home from dinner a very large pheasant seemed to not be too scared of the vehicle and refused to move!
But Monday and Monday night I will say was full of fowl play. With the high winds Monday afternoon newborn sparrows learning to fly were caught on the screened porch. Brett and I helped get them out and too the trees along with the help of Zoe. She caught one little bird twice but we got it away from her without any damage to it's wings. The strangest was Monday night...... Brett and I kept hearing something tap the window outside. This set Zoe off to barking. I thought it was the same bird from Sunday that pecked all afternoon on the window. This kept on for about an hour so I sent Brett outside to check it out. He called me outside to show me what he found.  One of the baby sparrows had somehow managed to get it's leg caught in between the windowsill and screen. It had tried frantically for so long to get itself loose, it had broken it's leg. Brett and I managed to get it loose and I held it while it rested. I won't go on to tell you all what happened but I am sure you can imagine. We didn't want the little thing to suffer. Here are a couple of pics of our bird encounters.

 Brett managed to get two out of the porch.

 They didn't seem to mind sitting in our
hands since the wind was so bad!

 This little bird hung out in a hanging basket!

 This little fellow was the one with the broken leg.
He also had a death grip on a strand of pine straw!

Fractured leg!

Found a Surprise!

Brett and Zoe were outside and discovered box turtle making it's way through the yard. Zoe sniffed....it hissed....and she ran! She slowly came back but circled it like a shark. Not getting too close to it. 

Circle around once!

 Circle around twice and Brett encourages her to check

the turtle out but she would not get too close.

One more quick sniff and the turtle is returned to the pond.

Zoe decided to repot a plant.....

or something like that!!!! 

This is what Brett came home to at lunch today!

I really don't know what she was thinking today!
You can see from the picture - the basket was
destroyed, the dirt out of the flower pot, the plant
in pieces, and bad dog Zoe is hiding under the table!!!

Today's result ~ Zoe in her crate without a bed
at all because what was left from yesterday's mess
was covered in dirt!
Needless to say, she will spend her days in a

4x4 crate!

Final Destruction of Bed

Luckily our spoiled rotten dog has three dog beds throughout

the house because she finished off the one in the sunroom today. 

When Brett came home for lunch he found this......

We don't know what possesses her to do this unless she

believes she is digging to china! The bottom of the bed
was completely torn apart.

While he was taking pictures and cleaning up the

mess Zoe made, he found her hiding behind the
chair. She did not want to come out!

When I got home she still thought she was in trouble because 

she would not even come to me. She will be sleeping in the

sunroom on what is left of her bed - just the pillow for now!

Happy Birthday Zoe

Today Zoe turned one! She even had a visit from Ollie and he brought her a toy. 

They played hard but Ollie was not as receptive as he was Easter!

Afterward Brett gave Zoe a bath so she had to roll
around in her bed and hide under the pillow.

She loved her birthday cupcakes!
They didn't last very long on the plate.

Springtime Is Here!

Finally some warm weather that we've got to enjoy during this much needed spring break! Too bad the break is about to come to an end but at least the warm weather is here (even though today seems a little chilly it is supposed to be 80). It's been a great week of relaxing and seeing friends, shopping, and more relaxing.
Easter Sunday we had the entire family at our house for lunch. Everyone had a great and relaxing day. Brett's parents and brother came, mama, Brian and Jessie, & Chris, Dana and Sarah. Full house, lots of delicious food and conversation.

While we waited for everyone to get here I snapped some pics of Zoe outside in the beautiful weather.

She got around really good on her new wrap for her leg.

At one point we found her in the golf cart - ready to go for a ride.

When Dana and Chris came back they brought Ollie!

 They had a lot of fun playing! So much Zoe had to rest her leg

and made room for Ollie to nap too.

New Cast ..... YELLOW Cast!

I had to take Zoe to the vet after work Friday afternoon for her follow-up. They kept her for about two hours to check her leg and re-wrap it. They told me they were going to give her a "happy shot" so she would be calm!
When I got back at 5:30 to pick her up she was completely spaced out!!! She was like a rag doll and just flopped down on my shoulder. I put her in the car in her bed and she slept hard until 9:30 that night. I had to check once to see if she was even breathing.
This is what you call a drunk dog......

She now has a yellow cast. This one is not wrapped tight. Dr. Lynn said her bone appeared to be mending quickly and this one will slide off her leg. If  and when it does she should be back to her normal rambunctious self!!

Today after I had gotten back from Savannah I noticed she was laying in the back storage room looking into a mirror I have propped up on the wall. When we first got her she thought it was another dog. Today she was laying in front of it and staring at her reflection. Then she inched slowly and licked the mirror, pulling back quickly. I watched as she did this twice wondering when the "other dog" would kiss her back. She got up and turned around of course when I got the camera.