Red alert

Last night the horses just outside the house got Daisy's attention.

Tonight Daisy is in the house.  She doesn't like loud noises and the fireworks in the distance was unnerving her.  Even though Tammy and I were outside with Daisy - having returned from getting Momma, Baby and three other cattle back into the pasture from the hayfield (they broke though the fence again!) - Daisy ran into the garage when fireworks starting going off.

Horses, dog and a tree

The afternoon started off lazy for Daisy due to the heat.  She did a lot of laying around with her eyes open. Not tired for sleeping; too warm to do anything.

The lazy day changed in the afternoon when the couple brought a new horse (Sierra) to replace Cowgirl.  They also brought their dog, Pistol.  I thought Daisy was sleeping in the garage when she showed up all of a sudden.  She came towards the dog and none of us knew what to do.  Even the dog didn't know what to do as it just stood there.

Then Daisy walked past the dog to go to the corral where I was.  When the dog started to follow Daisy she didn't like it as you can see in the photo below where Daisy told the dog to back off.  She then ran off towards the horse trailer while the dog remained here.

Once we got the horses swapped in the corral and the owners left with Cowgirl I walked to the house.  I heard meowing which I discovered to be from up one of the huge box elder trees over the patio.  I wonder if Daisy ran up the tree to get away from the dog?

I had to get an extension ladder to get Daisy down from the tree.  She allowed me to lift her from the tree and carry her down the ladder.  Once I was on the ground Daisy jumped from me to the ground rather than let me lower her to the ground.

Here is a 13 second video of Daisy in the tree:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1esC0B2Pkks

Daisy and the horses

Now that I am back home I let the horses into the yard to eat the grass down.

Daisy is braver than I expected.  Here Daisy came out of the house to check on Cowgirl.  Now if only Cowgirl would accidentally bump creepy cat and break it.

While Daisy is brave with the horses she doesn't like to be between them.  Wednesday night I was walking out of the corral after petting Lily and Daisy came running to me from the patio.  When Cowgirl then came behind her Daisy didn't know which horse to keep an eye on - the one in front or the one behind her - so she ran over to my car in the pole shed.


Well... Daisy's braveness comes and goes...

Thursday morning Daisy didn't like it when Lily came up to a living room window.  She was unnerved by this.  Look at how bushy her tail got.  In the second photo you can just make out Lily's head in the window on the left side.

Once Lily moved away from the window Daisy kept an eye on the door in case Lily decided to come to the door.

After all the excitement in the morning Daisy decided to sleep most of the afternoon hiding under the wire shelving unit in Tammy's office.  In the evening, when not distracted by the moths against the outside window and attracted to the light inside the house, Daisy sat on the back of the couch by the window and watched the horses in the yard - as long as they didn't come up to the window.