Door to the Garden

Another day another apartment. Camping in the van works for humans but I do my best to make it difficult for them, so F booked a series of inexpensive 'pet friendly' stays for our journey.  The further north and west we get the more expensive that gets, so the rooms get smaller, or are somewhere out in the boonies. F loves the boonies. Mr B is more of a town boy.  He can't order a pizza out here.

Tonight the back door of the apartment opens into a 'garden' on the edge of rolling farmland. There isn't a fence. There is a steep rough embankment down into a dry stream bed at the end of the garden. There are big trees and brambles and lots of exciting leaf mould and undergrowth.

Garden explored, tree with no low branches considered and discounted,

rabbit hutch reviewed (rabbits gone), chicken coop checked out (chickens also gone),

kids play frames investigated,

grass tasted, I hatched a plan. I went indoors and pretended to eat my dinner and while my humans were sitting at a table outdoors addressing some wine, I shot across the long grass as fast as my OAC legs will go - which both humans agree is still fast just not as sustained as it might once have been. My mistake was I stopped at the edge of the trees to contemplate direction, and Mr B caught me.

Bother.

Hatching a second plan was like setting up an attempt at a penalty goal. Look right, dash left. 

Mr B saw me look right with attention focused on some fictional interest point and did as expected. I dashed left and hurtled into the chicken cage. It has three lids. Mr B closed the lid on the part I was in.  They watched me for a while as I squeezed through the chicken door. 

"Don't worry" said F, "he goes into the rabbit house from there", but I didn't; I bounced. Tiggers bounce. I bounced out of the chicken cage and shot into the trees. Mr B fell in a hole when he chased me, but he pulled out a stunning rugby tackle and I was bundled indoors. 

It had begun to rain by then anyway.

They laughed and laughed and laughed. I'm hatching another plan.