More Placitas wildlife stories

My friend has a little old dog, about the size of mine. He’s old, partially blind, completely deaf, and very sweet. One day she started noticing that her little dog was going through quite a lot of water. She kept having to refill his water dish. Uh-oh, diabetes?

A few days later, she heard her parrot going, “Hello, hello!”, like her parrot does when someone comes into the house. Except there was no one at her house.

The next time she was home alone and heard her parrot greeting someone, she ran downstairs to see what was going on. She heard the doggie door flap go clickity-clack, and looked out the window to see a disappearing bobcat. No. Really? She figured, no way.

A few days later she was once again upstairs when all of a sudden she heard her husband downstairs, hollering. She came running downstairs and there it was, an enormous bobcat in their laundry room. It had been coming in for the dog’s water.

It’s been a dry spring.