Chewy’s shipments are in a box clearly labeled “CHEWY”, and very few porch pirates will think that anything really valuable (fenceable) would be in that box.
Also, they’d usually get a hernia trying to pick up one of them…
Being different species, she can’t give off the pheromones and other signals that would turn his brain to utter madness. So he’s likely to just stay in agape.
Annie McCaffrey wrote several “romance” novels — being her, they were Much Much more than bodice-rippers. Stitch in Snow had crafting and “old people can have romance, too”, Kilternan Legacy had “wait, women are that oppressed in Ireland?”, Mark of Merlin had a wonderful dog.
I think there were may have been more, but I’m reading “yesterday’s” comments, so I don’t want to take the time to either look up her Wiki or go upstairs to our library and peruse the shelves.
Some of those skulls should be horses’ skulls.