Shadow is not content to dig in the grass or by the fence. The pots that my Mistress so lovingly planted, aren\u2019t looking as well as they did. Now in fairness, one whole pot was finished off by the frost but the rest were doing quite well, until Shadow discovered them. She has now dug up and eaten the plants from another pot, and but for our intervention was in the process of starting on my Mistress\u2019s favourite. I know she intends to plant them in a flower bed. I just hope that the bed was going to be in the front garden and not where Shadow could get to it. I think flower beds in the back garden might be a thing to be avoided.<\/p>\n
Then of course there\u2019s the small matter of the bird table. I was worried when it was being pecked by woodpeckers. How little I knew! Now Shadow has become the bird table\u2019s worst enemy. To be fair it has seen better days and the wood might be a tiny bit rotten, but Shadow has been chewing one of the feet and it isn\u2019t looking so good. The rate she\u2019s going we\u2019re going to have a very lop-sided bird table. Maybe it will only be used by lop-sided birds who won\u2019t mind too much.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m looking forward to my Mistress coming home later. I\u2019ll be here ready as a welcoming party to jump all over her. I sometimes forget Shadow when I get like that and end up standing on her without realising it. It\u2019s getting easier now that she\u2019s a bit bigger but to begin with, she wasn\u2019t all that easy to spot.<\/p>\n
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