are you kidding?!

I have to say...animals are wierd.! I guess God was trying to make a point that animals were not created in the image of the Great Creator.

Don't we all know about dogs that love to eat chicken poo and if she can find kitty poo...well, that's even better! How gross. And if that weren't bad enough, the second time up seems even more appealing somehow. This is why Harriet should be outside only!!

Our one rabbit doe, who has been a good mom before, started acting weird. First, she is a full week over due.. .but fat, fat. She hasn't pulled a bit of fur to line the nest, yet yesterday afternoon she had a baby. Didn't care two hoots about him. This am he was still alive but mom decided he was better than her full food bowl. So he had a few chunks missing. I had to feed him to the cats. And funniest is that now she is going crazy pulling fur and making a nest and was having her litter last time I checked. Weird.

Or how about that baby goat? We were so excited to have a doeling this spring. We figured it was easiest to let mom do it natures way. She nursed them until we seperated them at 6-7 weeks. That was back 8 weeks ago. But every chance Baby Olive gets she runs over to mama to steal MY milk. That doesn't make me happy. I tried putting peppermint on the udder to discourage her. No avail.  Momma is so good that she'll let any critter suckle. I played mom and stood on the far side of mom and knocked Olive every time she nursed. Worked great . . . for a day. So now I have to resort to paying $45 to get an udder bag that looks like a straight jacket to make the nipples impossible to get at (I hope). The weirdest is that in researching I learned that even yearling does with their own babies will still nurse on mom...or they will suck on themselves. How weird!

I think I am glad that my kids can easily see that God indeed made us a cut above the animal world. I hope they use their knowledge to further the Truth of this hierarchy and God's plan of redemption for us humans.