COYOTES GET GOLDIE

Linda has been calling her pet cat Goldie each morning for 3 days. She usually lets Goldie and Cairo (both neutered) in for food in the morning. Today she was calling me away from my politics show on tv. Despite all the lush green growth, llamas reaching over fence made a hole for ewe and lamb to crawl through. We got the ewe and lamb back into the pen and I set to fixing the fence. Grr! Something smelled very bad so I sent Rex into the grass and we found a grizzly murder scene. Damage to throat area indicated coyotes, who kill sheep by grabbing them and choking. They probably killed her as competition for food. I dug a hole and buried the remains with Linda witnessing over the fence. Her past 2 pets, Jezabel from Washington DC and Muslix, born here, are buried in the raspberry patch. We will plant a tree over Goldie. Wish coyotes did not take cats after a $100 neutering! Life is hard on pets but already Linda has found 4 new kittens, one of them golden orange in colour.