I’ve been looking at this picture off and on all day.
Now: Part of me says somebody took an unusually complaisant chicken and set her on a couple of drowsy puppies, then snapped the pic before something went wrong. Actually that’s most likely.
But what if the chicken really is trying to mother the puppies? Hey, chickens are weird. A broody hen will try to mother any chicks she encounters, is it so impossible she might try it with puppies? And say that’s the case: Is it just a brainless chicken thing? Instinct not hitting on all cylinders? Or is there purpose?
I mean, Mama Click raised her own personal monster, right?
And whatever her purpose, there’s no doubt she was doing it on purpose. She used to go out and kill rabbits for him, dragged them into the trailer, laid them (rather tenderly) before him. To this day he loves to eat rabbits, and any living thing that tried to harm Click would have had to go through Little Bear first. Good luck with that. She’s the only cat we had that didn’t die of violence.
So…a chicken that raises her own guard dogs? Maybe?
Nah. Cats aren’t the smartest creatures alive but the stupidest cat in history is frickin’ Einstein compared to the smartest chicken. Somebody posed them. Or it’s just a weird chicken fluke.
I think.
Well, the Anchorage daily news website had just the opposite, a dog adopting and the only surviving chick from a clutch of eggs with pictures. This was up last week.
My mother had a dog and cat combo that the dog some times babysat the kittens and one time the cat came to the dog’s rescue leaping on the back of a much larger dog who was attacking her friend. The world is full of unlikely animal friendships.