Nathaniel and I just bought them these little shovels, and they love them. They helped move a little dirt before Lydia decided to climb on the roof and Gyunay played out back.
Lydia has been diligently burying and making crosses for animal burials. This one was a very large frog that the cats killed this weekend (and brought into the garage for us). She made a larger one for the hen that was killed by a hawk last week.
The cats are great mousers, and Lydia is thrilled that they kill mice all the time. She doesn't bury those; we just sweep them out into the yard away from the house. However, she does bury any frogs they kill and has unsuccessfully tried to explain to the cats that they are not allowed to kill her friends the frogs. I'm looking into ways of raising chicks this year that will keep them safe from our cats. Usually, we start chicks in the garage for a few weeks, but that would pretty well make them easy prey for our adorable killers,who now live in the garage and let themselves in and outside via the cat door Nathaniel installed.
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