Caught Unawares

Life has a way of being amusing... While the photograh at the left is less than professional (taken with my cell phone zoomed as far in as possible), I believe you can discern two fellow travelers that joined us briefly for the afternoon walk with the dogs. As it happens, we were being followed unawares by the two deer until Gizmo had to take care of his "business." Gizmo has an unusual habit when we get to that point in the walk. He runs in crazy, tight circles five or six times before he squats. Giz was in his third or fourth turn, and suddenly bolted forward about six feet, and then started circling again. He finally completed the ritual turns, and as he was mid-business, he was looking back over his shoulder doing his high pitch whine. When I turned to look, so did Ginger. Immediately Ginger figured out what was going on and stood watching at attention. Once Ginger was at attention, Gizmo (interrupting his business) joined in the stare-down. Being shy things and suddenly the center of attention, the deer took off from whence they came, white tails flashing. And once the deer were running, the doggie adrenaline was flowing and their demeanor came just short of rabid. Since they had both done their stuff, I cut the walk short and headed home, chuckling at poor Gizmo, who apparently didn't like to be the evening show for the deer.