Doggie Bread

Deciding I’d had enough of seeing the dried up cow knuckle in the loungeroom which the girls had lost interest in, I picked it up and decided to throw it outside, knowing that once it’s been out there gathering muck and nature, Cleo will regain interest in it.

As I’m about to throw it out the back door, I spy a magpie perched on the old toddler’s swimming pool looking for anything to drink or any pests that have lost their way in the big empty blue shell that is now the pool.

I throw the bone out which the maggie now heads towards to see if it could supply a tidbit.  Feeling sorry for the bird, I open the loaf of bread which I also had in my hand returning it to the kitchen from the loungeroom after a lunchtime snack and throw out a slice of bread for the now startled bird.

During this time, both Cleo and Milly had come running to hear what the loud thump was in the backyard as the bone landed on the concrete and witnessed me throwing out the slice of bread.

The magpie, deciding I’d thrown one thing too many at it, didn’t stick around to check out the bread and had perched higher up on the fence by now, leaving only Cleo to go inspect what the second item was that I’d thrown out.

With  her blindness near complete, and her only able to see shades of light and dark, she used her nose to sniff out the location of the mystery item.  It wasn’t long before she found the wholemeal slice of bread and quickly claimed it as her own, grabbing it up and happily taking it inside to have it as a pre-dinner snack.

When I playfully tried to take it off her, her equally playful growl basically said, “You dumped it, I’s claimed it!” and within a couple more bites, there was no trace of the bread left.

Try to do a good thing for a native bird only for it to become a dog’s extra meal!

Gotta love her!