Onbei a farm -And a hazar Joyce B The rush of dread that washed over me as I approached the pen lasted only momentarily. Sadness quickly replaced it I quickly reached in and lifted out Skunk, the big black and white cat, which crouched there on the straw. But it was too late. Gus lay limp, his soft, gray-furred body still warm. Just as we were getting attached to the gentle, tame “Eas ter bunny" gift to our son, this tragic, accidental clash of two pets had ended his life. I wanted to be angry with Skunk, but knew that would be wrong. Skunk, though he’s affec tionate and gentle, is a farm cat He patrols the fields and barns for mice and rats. And cats are unable to differentiate between tame and wild in potential prey. A wire run which attached to Gus’s pen allowed us to move him about the yard to different spots, where he grazed on the fresh green grass and stretched out in the sun shine. In fact, Gus so preferred grass that he literally turned up his wiggly gray nose at lettuce. Skunk had found a loose spot in the wire and wood run and wiggled Lime application during the winter allows the limestone time to react Hi-Calcium rfin LIMESTONE through it While’ Gus’ stay with us was much too short, the little rabbit carved a niche in the comers of our hearts where we keep warm memories of pets that we’ve known and loved and lost Looking back over the years, we’ve loved quite a few pets of varying sorts. Princess and Dusty always come to mind. This loveable mother-and-daughter pair of collie dogs saw our babies into toddler hood, and helped me bid our old est farewell the first day she stepped on the school bus. Not too long after that. Princess was killed when a car hit her. Her daughter went into mourn ing in the springhouse, absolutely refused to eat or drink for several weeks, and died of obvious heartbreak. That was a tough one for the kids to understand. It wasn’t a whole lot easier for the grownups, either. An accident similar to that of Gus’ also took away Ali, our daughter’s beloved and incredibly tame guinea pig. Ali (short for Alabama, which was her name It's the right time to apply lime m-Mainesium when she was given to us) loved to roam the yard, running for cover if any danger threatened. Our cats and dogs knew her and let her alone. But a friend’s dog, a dog I accustomed to hunting ground- I hogs, never knew the difference I when he hopped from her car one II day and AU happened to be out I nibbling grass. No one felt worse | about it than my good friend; but it was just an accident. Lamb Chop was a - what else? - II sheep which we bottle raised for a I neighbor, a triplet barely alive when she arrived in our kitchen. Prayers and warm milk brought liter through the crisis, and she grew into a great pet of the kids. A year later she had Scooter, a ram bunctious youngster which even tually joined Grandpa’s little flock of meadow-munchers when he took to ramming the kids. Lamp Chop fell prey to one of the mys terious maladies that sometimes affect sheep - and we were out of the shepherd business. The teenage girl “horse” period we went through with our daught er brought us two equine “temps” one winter. A program in which summer camp trailride horses were farmed out to willing boar ders through the off-season brought us Gaucho and his buddy whose name eludes me. Gaucho I remember because he instinctively knew a non-horse person and inevitably found some way to wrap me around a fencep ost. While our daughter missed them, this Mom had no regrets at sending them back to camp. The “temps” were replaced with Jubee, an ex-barrel-racing mare that thrived on competing with the three-wheeler on runs through the hayfield. Jubee was tearfully sold when her owner needed college money; and we For prompt delivery contact your local Martin Limestone deader or cell Blue Bad, P*. (800) 233-0205 (717) 354-4125 were also out of the horse business. 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