Turtle

Friday, after her afternoon nap and quick lunch, Daisy wanted me to come outside with her.  Shortly after going outside she scratched on the screen door, then ran away a short distance when I came to the door.  Five minutes later she was meowing at the door but didn't want to come inside when I came to the door.  After doing this two more times she gave up.  I was still eating my late lunch.  When I did come outside she came running from the fruit tree area when I called for her.

We walked to the south pasture where I was building a fence near the river.  We first had to pass by the cattle in the middle pasture where I gave them some watermelon rind to eat.  Two calves was very interested in Daisy and came running over to her.  Daisy crouched down and the calves stopped.  She then started walking towards me and then the calves followed her again.  Again she crouched down.  She came when I called her and then I blocked the calves from following Daisy.

At the river Daisy settled in among the tall grass near the river while I worked on the fence.   She came up to where I was working after a while for some more attention.  She laid in the shade I provided her.

 
A bit a bit Daisy went back down to the tall grass along the river to explore.  A little later I was surprised to see a turtle among the small circles of barb wire on the ground.

 
After I took a few photos the turtle decided to head back to the river.

 
Daisy showed up and was curious as to what that strange creature was.

 The turtle slipped back into the river before Daisy dared get close enough.

Daisy settled down to lay near where I was working.

A short time later the turtle climbed up the river bank to find Daisy there.   Again it went back to the river before Daisy dared get close enough.

The third time the turtle crawled to the top of the river bank Daisy was able to get close enough to sniff the turtle.  I don't think care for the turtle and its river smell.  She was trying to get the courage up to lightly pat the turtle with her paw when the turtle headed back down to the river.

The turtle came back up a few more times.  But by now Daisy had other things that interested her and the turtle was left alone to sit at the top of the river bank waiting for us to leave.

Completed fence.  With the recent middle fence rebuild (I'll post about it later) I had some extra old posts and old wire for this project.  The last couple of years the cattle started to go up and down this river bank instead of always walking over to where the bank is shallow to the river.  I don't want the cattle on the steep bank; and I just planted a dogwood tree near the top of the bank to see how it would grow and help stabilize the riverbank and I didn't want the cattle to eat the new tree.

After the fence was done Daisy and I checked the old fence along the property boundary near the river.  The grass was much taller than Daisy and every so often she would call out for my location as she followed me through the tall grass.   Here we are heading back out of the low area along the river.

On the way back home Daisy and I checked the south pasture fence for loose or broken wires or broken fence posts.

Back home after all the walking and adventure you'd think Daisy would rest.  After drinking from the cattle's water trough she went off to do her patrolling.  After dark I heard a cat fight maybe off towards the hay shed.  I went out and looked and called for her.  Nothing.  She showed up an hour later.  After eating she went back outside until early morning.


Here is a 58 second video of Daisy and the turtle: https://youtu.be/FZ94EE9by_8

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