Last month, I posted a photo of blind Callie the Dachshund trying to work her way under the door into the cat house. As I pointed out then, Callie is crazy about the cats. Yesterday morning, when I was taking the photos of blind Briggs parading around with the tennis ball, Callie was right behind me at the cat’s outdoor enclosure, shuffling back and forth trying to figure out a way inside it, barking as she went. Although she would be harmless with the cats if we let her in, they would not be the same with her, and we can’t run the risk of her getting her eyes scratched.
The cats are rather amused by her antics, and will often paw at the plump Dachshund through the fence to taunt her. Three-legged Honey Girl (that’s her in the corner) will lie on her back at the edge of the enclosure, look right at Callie, and then casually toss her one front-leg back over her head, as if to say — imagine a Zsa Zsa Gabor voice here — "Really, dahling, you are so annoying."
Stuart the deaf Beagle is on the left. He isn’t very interested in these "domestic" cats, since they are already contained. Stuart only gets excited over our barn cats when they go walking by outside the dog yards, and he races up and down the fence barking at them. What he would actually do with the barn cats if he managed to get close to them, Lord only knows, although I think I know what they would do to him. Since the barn cats are wandering freely, maybe he thinks they’re more like wildlife and thus worthy of pursuit.
Callie, on the other hand, is very content to focus on the domesticated version of felines. (It helps she can’t see the barn cats walking by.) One day we just might put a Dachshund-sized football helmet with visor on her and send her on in there!
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