Magic Woods

Having a dog certainly brings adventure to a life.  The other day Anna and Kuba took Thea for a walk at the Intervale to check out the thickness of the ice on a pond there.  Kuba noticed a deer laying on the ice, injured and bloody.   At first he thought it was a wolf eating a deer, but then noticed it was a deer seemingly stuck in the ice.  They went for help and when they returned and waited for the state police to arrive, keeping watch over the deer.  The deer looked them both in the eye - they could see the fear and pleading in the deer's eyes.  They both said a little prayer for the deer.   And then the deer died.  Later Anna and a friend came back and gutted the deer for venison.   The guts were placed there in the snow for other animals to eat.

Two days later we took the dog again for a walk.  This time to what we call Magic Woods.   We went to clip greens but ended up finding more than that.  There was a big owl there, and they happened to spot it just after a fresh kill.  It had gutted a rabbit - and left only the fur and guts.  Remarkable that within a couple of days both deer and rabbit guts were laid out in the snow.