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1) a small black cat disappearing up the lane.  I thought she had killed a baby rabbit at first, as she was clearly carrying something heavy from the way she was running.  Then she jumped up onto the bank, and I realised that what she was carrying was actually a very small black kitten.   I have not seen her before.  I wonder if she is feral?

2) dead (but not squished) on the road below Kit Hill, something that was quite definitely either a young polecat-ferret, or possibly an actual polecat.  I know that the Polecats are coming back, after having been almost extinct and reduced to a tiny relict population in West Wales -  but in theory, they are not supposed to have reached Cornwall yet.   So possibly a feral ferret?  Although the difference between a feral polecat-ferret and an actual polecat seems to be largely philosophical.

3) a huge moon.   I took rather a good photograph of it, but you will have to take this on trust, as I then accidentally deleted the photograph before I had copied it off the camera drive.  Oh well.  It's the moon, you all know what that looks like.

Date: 2013-06-25 02:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mcmurphy79.livejournal.com
My mum and I did a similar thing with a rabbit and our then lurcher penny was in the car. My step dad was mortified and said he hoped no other gypsies saw him!!

Hehehe love all animals and hated it if penny ever caught anything x

Date: 2013-06-25 02:55 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] bunn.livejournal.com
Neither of my current 2 have ever caught anything. They are utterly incompetent lurchers :-D

I have more or less made up my mind that if they did catch rabbits, I can cope with that, on the grounds that wild rabbits have so much nicer lives than the chickens that go into their dogfood, and I think they do need some meat. With a rabbit it would all be over pretty instantly, I hope.

But as it happens, it's never really come up because Brythen and Az are both so clueless. :-D Mollydog did catch a squirrel once, shortly after I adopted her - but it bit her on the nose! After that you could see that she would carefully keep at least a foot back, if she chased something, just in case it turned nasty :-D

Date: 2013-06-25 05:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mcmurphy79.livejournal.com
Penny ate one of john's birds - opps and also caught a rabbit with mixy which was probably a blessing, a rat and a squirrel so not an outstanding total x

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