M.O.O.N. that spells Tank!
Now the hungry lion roars, & the wolf behowls the moon…
(Shakespeare)
As the sun dips down below the horizon the desert starts to awaken. This is the only time you are safe from the heat & everything comes out to forage & play. Snakes & tarantulas roam just outside the fence, making a trip out to the car an exciting event.
Yes, this is also when happy little wolf dogs run a muck in the yard tearing stuff up after hibernating out of the heat all day. Mornings you are jolted awake as they stampede across the deck & splash around in the little pool playing chase. After coffee (don’t attempt this before coffee)… you go out of the house in the morning to find pieces of hose & electrical wiring that came from who knows what (to be found later), and more hay bales torn apart. Then you find half chewed parts from the grey water system strewn across the yard, which explains the bumping & banging of the wind you thought you heard last night. Every morning is an adventure in patience…
Arbus in his scrawny summer suit.
To keep them from being bored, this is a good time of year to make big ice block treats with bits of meat or fish (if you have a freezer that is). And to hide things (when they can’t see you) in the yard for them to tear up or play with. Sometimes a pizza box will do the trick in a emergency fit of boredom… “I’m going to tear up your plants if you don’t do something quick” moment. But mostly right now when they get restless we give them raw soup bones to keep them busy & away from other stuff.
Summer howling lessons. Kodiak is the Grand Master.
Tank can be very unpleasant to be around for weeks & then suddenly have a spurt of happy attitude when he feels like playing. This is mostly confusing & often ignored. Although once in a while they play a careful game of “get Tank”, but not too often because even then he will sometimes still do a Jekyll & Hyde in the middle of a game.
Just waiting for Tank to pass on through…
One day the three little wolves got tired of the big bad Tank, and beat him up pretty good. Tank crawled under the farthest part of the porch & growled all day & all night, at anyone who passed by. Just as his family was about to drug him & drag him out to see how bad he was hurt, he decided to come in the house for a snack. Even though he had a good size cut on his leg he was feeling pretty happy! His family gave him lots of treats though some he thought might have had pills hidden in them, he ate them because he loved cheese. Everyone mostly left him alone & he was a little nicer to the three little wolves. For a while…
When I began treating Tanks cut & giving him antibiotics a strange thing happened… We noticed his eyes & his mood were much better. For some reason the antibiotics (Fish Mox – available at pet stores for about &18-20) had started clearing up the Panus covering both Tanks eyes. He could see! I wish there was a quick pill fix like that, that would last, but as soon as we stopped the Amoxicillin the Panus came back immediately. Hopefully his eyes will do better in Oregon where there is less sun.
I’ll huff & I’ll puff… Dharma got a visitor IN her house! OMG she looks happy!!! Only Shanna would squash herself in that tiny dusty hay bale house with Dharma. Shanna has a beautiful way with animals. Obviously…
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