Chicken Teriyaki Bowl #7

So, I’m sitting here, reading my RSS feeds and the dogs are going nuts outside.  They have this particular high-pitched bark when it is something really important, like Roxie getting out of the yard (Rosie always tattles on her, but never tries to get out herself).  I got up to check and I see all three dogs with their noses through the chain link fence staring at something and barking excitedly.

Now there’s a picture for you - barking with their noses through the chain link.  Anyway, I just couldn’t see what had got them all frantic.  No cats, no birds… the last time they were this excited a little bird had been stunned by a car and was sitting in the road.  So, I put on my shoes and go out with them.  They are so intent on this thing they don’t even come to say hi, not even Sheila, which is very odd.

But I still can’t see what they are looking at, so I go outside the fence and follow their eyes and then I see it… a leaf.  It is very cold out and the leaf was stiff and had fallen so it was sitting straight up, balanced on it’s stem and the edge of the leaf.  That is what the dogs were barking at.  To make sure I picked it up and floated it over the fence to them.  They went nuts trying to get it and eat it.

Brittney spaniels are soooo strange!