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    SUN DECK FOR LITTLE FOX   

                                                                

 

                                       

 

WE HAVE A DOG NAMED LITTLE FOX. SHE'S A STRAY THAT WANDERED UP ONE DAY AND ADOPTED US. SHE'S A HINES VARIETY. SHE LOOKS LIKE A LITTLE FOX SO THAT'S WHAT WE CALL HER, WE MADE HER A DOG HOUSE OUT OF A PLASTIC TUB WE HAD IN THE GARAGE. WE TURNED IT UPSIDE DOWN AND CUT A HOLE IN ONE END FOR A DOOR. THEN WE SCREWED IT TO A BOARD WITH CARPET ON IT. WE GLUED AN OLD TOWEL TO THE TOP AND LET IT HANG DOWN OVER THE OPENING. THE TUB IS ABOUT 14 INCHES TALL AND LITTLE FOX LIKES TO STAND ON TOP OF IT TO LOOK AROUND. WHEN THE SUN IS WARM SHE WILL LAY ON TOP OF HER HOUSE AND TAKE A NAP. SO WE STARTED CALLING THE TOP OF HER DOG HOUSE HER SUN DECK.

 

ONE DAY WHILE SHE WAS ON HER SUN DECK TAKING A NAP A SQUIRREL CAME DOWN OUT OF ONE OF THE PECAN TREES AND WENT TO HER FOOD BOWL. AS THE SQUIRREL STARTED EATING HER FOOD LITTLE FOX HEARD IT AND STOOD UP. THIS SCARED THE SQUIRREL AND HE MADE A BEE LINE FOR HIS PECAN TREE WITH LITTLE FOX IN HOT PURSUIT. JUST AS THE SQUIRREL HIT THE PECAN TREE A BLUE JAY MADE A DIVE AT LITTLE FOX. THIS SCARED HER SO BAD THAT SHE RAN INTO HER DOG HOUSE AND HID. SHE WOULD STICK HER HEAD OUT OF THE DOOR JUST ENOUGH TO SEE OUT FROM UNDER THE TOWEL. THE SQUIRREL WAS ON HIS PECAN TREE CHATTERING UP A STORM, THE BLUE JAY WAS SITTING ON THE FENCE SQUAWKING LIKE A BANSHEE, AND LITTLE FOX WAS HOWLING LIKE CRAZY. ABOUT THAT TIME OUR NEIGHBOR STUCK HIS HEAD OVER OUR STOCKADE FENCE TO SEE WHAT ALL THE RUCKUS WAS ABOUT. THE SQUIRREL SAW HIM AND BY THIS TIME WAS SO MAD THAT HE JUMPED ON THE NEIGHBOR AND STARTED BITING HIM. THIS EXCITED THE BLUE JAY AND HE STARTED DIVE BOOMING HIM. LITTLE FOX THOUGHT HE WAS AN INTRUDER AND RAN TO THE FENCE AND STARTED BARKING. THE NEIGHBOR STARTED YELLING BEHAVE OR I'LL BOX YOUR EARS.

 

UNDER ALL THESE ATTACKS HE RAN FOR HIS HOUSE TO GET AWAY FROM WHATEVER WAS GOING ON. AS HE SAT THERE IN HIS DEN HE DECIDED THAT IT MUST BE MY FAULT THAT HE WAS ATTACKED AND DECIDED TO CALL THE POLICE. WHEN THEY GOT THERE HE STARTED TELLING THEM ABOUT MY ATTACK DOG, MY ATTACK SQUIRREL, AND MY ATTACK BLUE JAY AND HOW THEY HAD NEARLY KILLED HIM. HE TOLD THE POLICE THAT HE WAS IN HIS OWN BACK YARD MINDING HIS OWN BUSINESS WHEN THESE ANIMALS ATTACKED HIM AND HE WANTED TO FILE CHARGES AGAINST ME. THE TWO OFFICERS LOOKED AT HIM THEN AT EACH OTHER AND CALLED AN AMBULANCE TO TAKE HIM TO A HOSPITAL FOR FUNNY PEOPLE. BUT THAT'S A WHOLE NOTHER STORY FOR A DIFFERENT TIME.

 

THE POLICE OFFICERS CAME TO OUR HOUSE AND ASKED US IF WE HAD EVER NOTICED ANYTHING STRANGE ABOUT OUR NEIGHBOR. WE TOLD THEM, “NO” BUT HE DIDN'T LIKE OUR DOG OR THE BIRDS AND SQUIRRELS WE FEED IN THE BACK YARD. ONE OF THE OFFICERS SAID WELL THAT EXPLAINS IT. YOUR NEIGHBOR GOT REAL SICK THIS MORNING AND THEY CARTED HIM OFF TO THE FUNNY FARM.

 

  BY LOREN MOORE

COPYRIGHT 1999

 

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