DianaRose Misses Love? But she's only a lamb.....
April 18th 2008 12:36
Gunning up the Western highway tonight me and the kids could barely wait to leave the city: ye-haa!
The good news is we'll be out of the smog for a coupla days.
Bad news is that we left behind Rose, our nearly four week merino lamb, who now is not happy, not happy at all.
Let me tell you a bit about young Rose's routine. Awakened gently at 6am she is fed warm milk and tenderly cuddled by Lisa, before that child leaves for school at 7am.
Rose then frolicks around the back garden with Bootling the puppy until 7.30 when they both start bashing at the back door with paws and hooves respectively.
Once inside, Rose cuddles up to Michael while he focusses on his toys and absently feeds her a second bottle.
Boots meanwhile can be heard wolfing down some left-over porridge in the kitchen at this stage, not to be outdone.
At 8.30 the pair are shoo-ed outside by me, Boots to be tied up and Rose to join the chooks in their pen, where she settle down on a dis-used nest and has a little nap.
She is fed on and off during the day: more if I'm home, once at lunch if i'm at school.
When the kids get home she races, skips and cavorts around them just like Boots and is cuddled and fed and allowed to snuggle inside or played with outside until dinner.
She has ballooned out alarmingly in size and basically has her own body weight in milk each day, way and above more than the directions on the sack of milk powder suggest.
but anyway.
The problem is that she has been used to a lot of loving attention and this weekend I have left her to be looked after by hubby, who tends to have a 'feed her and toss her out the door when she's done' attitude.
This has not suited her, not in the few hours since we left.
Apparently she has stood by the back door plaintively bleating and baa-ing the whole time, refusing to suckle and irritably stamping her little hoof when hubby does try to feed her.
S'pose she'll get used to it.
Proves though that animals like (need?) a lot of love and attention just the same, exactly the same, as humans.
Must be built into their survival mechanism?
The good news is we'll be out of the smog for a coupla days.
Bad news is that we left behind Rose, our nearly four week merino lamb, who now is not happy, not happy at all.
Let me tell you a bit about young Rose's routine. Awakened gently at 6am she is fed warm milk and tenderly cuddled by Lisa, before that child leaves for school at 7am.
Rose then frolicks around the back garden with Bootling the puppy until 7.30 when they both start bashing at the back door with paws and hooves respectively.
Once inside, Rose cuddles up to Michael while he focusses on his toys and absently feeds her a second bottle.
Boots meanwhile can be heard wolfing down some left-over porridge in the kitchen at this stage, not to be outdone.
At 8.30 the pair are shoo-ed outside by me, Boots to be tied up and Rose to join the chooks in their pen, where she settle down on a dis-used nest and has a little nap.
She is fed on and off during the day: more if I'm home, once at lunch if i'm at school.
When the kids get home she races, skips and cavorts around them just like Boots and is cuddled and fed and allowed to snuggle inside or played with outside until dinner.
She has ballooned out alarmingly in size and basically has her own body weight in milk each day, way and above more than the directions on the sack of milk powder suggest.
but anyway.
The problem is that she has been used to a lot of loving attention and this weekend I have left her to be looked after by hubby, who tends to have a 'feed her and toss her out the door when she's done' attitude.
This has not suited her, not in the few hours since we left.
Apparently she has stood by the back door plaintively bleating and baa-ing the whole time, refusing to suckle and irritably stamping her little hoof when hubby does try to feed her.
S'pose she'll get used to it.
Proves though that animals like (need?) a lot of love and attention just the same, exactly the same, as humans.
Must be built into their survival mechanism?
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Comment by Demeter
Hopefully your husband's attitude to you is better than it is to the lamb.