FINALLY found out what Big Dog has been GOING OFF about every single nite for weeks. Remember that I'm home alone [dh working nites] usually so after happening every nite, I was beginning to wonder if someONE was casing the place. Initially I just thot it was a bear. It the season they are gorging themselves but.... every nite? 
Their range is too big for that. Coyotes are frequent and I've seen one pass thru the pasture several times in early morning. But unless they 'sing', Big Dog probably isn't hearing them.
So Big Dog goes off...BARKBARKBARKBARKBARKBARKBARK....and each time I wonder if someONE or someTHING is on my porch.
Nothing ever happens and she finally shuts up and we all go back to sleep. Hmph!Well I decided to take Mr.Smith and Mr. Wesson with me outside to the porch one nite. I also had the big spotlight. Yanked open the door and shined.........
That stupid DONKEY was out getting into no-good-donkey-business! That particular nite she'd found the hay/alfalfa under the porch and tore it up. When I came out I had just time to see her guilty hindquarters disappearing down the driveway. She was innocently back in the pasture by daybreak.
Well, last nite confirmed that this was not a random act. It's definitely her. When BARKBARKBARKBARK began, I hustled out there with my usual companions and there was MzMM. I threw a plastic bottle of water at her retreating self and she again hustled outta there. I'd blocked the area underneath the [second floor] porch now and tho she'd 'messed' with the fencing, she didn't get in. Knew the alfalfa would draw her back....and it's not good for her.
So Barky Dog is justified [tho by her tone I always knew she'd heard SOMETHING] and has my permission to tattle on that 'ole donkey any time. Eventually, donkey will learn that I'm coming out when the dog barks and she'll leave sooner.
But...getting my sleep interrupted is NOT helping the overall situation. I've put out the word that I am giving up FREE, an untrained donkey and old horse. I'll get approval of donkey rescue to transfer ownership to someone else if I can find a good place for her pesky and sorta lovable self. Someone who has better fences than I can afford.
MtRider
