11:55pm Friday August 22
Youda been horrified
maple brought inside old toad carcass
and would not give it up
then it tasted sour
she shook head
like with apple spray
Maple loves to eat dead animals. My first experience with this disgusting habit was in Hutchinson, at Mom and Dad's house. She came to Mom and I with a cardinal crushed between her teeth. I started beating her with her (now defunct) stuffed walrus that we had bought at Starbucks for her drive from Newalla to Austin. (I think it was a save-the-whales promotional event?) Turns out that the only thing that will come between Maple and a dead animal is Apple Sour. This is the miracle product that we use to keep Maple from biting hands, shoes, rugs...and from eating dead animals. It apparently mimics the defense mechanism that toads have developed.
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