So you can watch the woods when you put Hrafi and company outside?
I used to worry about owls when my little guy went outside, until he got big enough. Then it was the deer. Nasty frigging giant rats with attitude!
Among other things, yes...the dogs.
:D
Several years ago, while a pack of Ibizan Hounds and a Dobe were standing right there, a huge Golden Eagle came down in the fastest spiral you can imagine, after my little Portuguese Podengo Medio.
I had been stupidly staring up at the strange spot in the sky, from my perch on the back porch, when I realized what was happening.
[I *thought* it was just a chicken hawk]
I bolted off the porch, let out a weird primal scream that made the usually “Oh screw you” Ibizans actually listen and run for the open back door, while I raced across the yard to where my oblivious PPM stood, sniffing dandelions.
[weird how a scene is burned into your memory]
I grabbed her up, on the fly and was carrying her clutched against my chest, trying to run back to the door myself.
That damn bird grabbed onto *me* with its talons and started flopping me about the head and shoulders with its wings, trying to make me drop its “meal”.
That had to be the longest hundred feet I’ve ever ran.
As I got on the porch it finally let go of me.
It hung around for a week, after that, waiting for another chance.
But I was waiting, too.
Thankfully, eventually it left.
I still watch out for such things, though.
{{{shudder}}}