Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for December 18, 2021

Sh!t happens.

Feathers, more exciting than life with Arlo.

The circle of life, the proper term is chicken hawk

I hope it wasn’t Henery who did it.

(Henery Hawk, Looney Tunes, 1942)

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Well, it wasn’t the snake. But it was the chicken they were gonna eat next week.

It shouldn’t bother Arlo. But Ludwig might feel pressure to up his reputation as a fierce predator.

People don’t acknowledge the steady hand on the helm, though it makes for a pleasant trip.

Should have hired Foghorn Leghorn when he offered to pull Security!

Just keep holding down the couch…potato.

Had a visit from a hawk last Spring and one of the cats that staked out our bird feeders went missing. Maybe there’s no connection.

Argo’s a watcher and not a do’er. Take up cycling, become a Mamil (middle aged men in Lycra).

Not being a farmer I thought that was a known risk for raising chickens. I thought a certain amount of “shrinkage” of the flock was expected.

I don’t understand Arlo’s comment. Please help.

Up my game? I don’t get it.

Sent a photo of the feathers???

A friends friend lived in a mobile home where cats would have kittens…hawks and owls would pick off the kittens when they came out from under

When my kids were young, we had a house at the end of a street. We bordered a sandy, undeveloped area, with lots of vegetation. One day my seven year old daughter called me over to the window to watch a little family of bunnies. It was a couple of adults and a half dozen little ones. Suddenly there was a poof of sand, and one of the bunnies disappeared. “Look, daddy, that bird is taking him for a ride!” “Yes, honey, that’s exactly what’s going on…”

A hawk once swooped down and grabbed one of our ducks. He couldn’t clear the top of the fence though. The benefits of being well fed.

Huh?

huh?

Foxie sez: “That sucker chicken hawk takes the rap again!”

I once had a hawk circling my dog and I while on a walk. I kept moving my dog into my shadow, eventually carried her home after I heard screeching. They aren’t that common here, but after a fight with a goose trying to kill my dog once, I get very protective. (I won with the goose, and my dog was not harmed as I kept her behind me, and after the goose went for my face, I backed it off slowly by walking towards it while yelling and flapping my arms. That generally works for weird people, too.) My dog weighs about 18 lbs. I doubt my dog would have been carried off by the hawk, but she could have been seriously injured.

I live in Philadelphia, in the central part of the city. I went out one morning to get the bus to work and not three feet away on the sidewalk was a hawk tearing a pigeon to shreds. It didn’t even glance at me. Falcons are living on the ledges of some highrise buildings, and once I saw an eagle sitting in a tree, also happily consuming a pigeon.

Holo/6The strength of Mother Nature/Earth is incalculable.

Don’t worry, Arlo, we still find you fascinating.

My daughter had 6 chickens that were pets and something got into the coup one night and massacred all but one. My granddaughters were devastated.

One place where I worked a hawk flew in.

Ahhhhhh Yeah!!!!!