Katherine of Loch Ness

Our little Kate! Aren't these pictures the cutest!?? Well, Kate loves Florida and loves to be outside all day long. Her new favorite hobby is to chase little geckos. She keeps quite busy all day.

Neighbors Jim and Susan have been watching a Dove family all season. The mother had two babies and now they sort of fly but they hang around under the shrubs in the rocks. She comes and feeds them and watches over them. (You know where I'm going with this, don't you???)

Yesterday, Kate was outside...we had come in for awhile. John then went outside to hear Susan yelling that Kate had her Dove in her mouth and was running all over!!!! So we went after her...along with about 6 other people. She was having a blast running free checking out the animal life under all the shrubs and coach houses! I finally caught her, the dove was not in her mouth at this point. Her little heart was beating so hard and she knew I was mad at her.

What had happened was I had bought new collars for them, and the ring you attach the rabies tags etc...was so small that when John hooked her up to the leash, he hooked her up to her rabies ring instead of the small ring...and she bolted when she spotted the birds and it just pulled apart.

Well, the good news is that later Jim had come home and said to Susan, "the mother bird was just here feeding the babies!" (We didn't tell him we thought the mother was gone!) Susan looked at me and I at her...and we finally told Jim what happened. She must have been just stunned and hiding until she regained her strength...then went back to her babies.

All is well, and life is good.