You just never know what the alpha pup thugs are going to get up to next. When they sleep they sleep! And that’s always in a pile. They act out everything as a unit. From birth they’ve been together and whatever they do just has to be together.
And of course they get up to mischief as a unit. When they’re not sleeping they’re constantly on the move either chewing twigs, chewing each other, chasing each other around, tormenting one of their own 6-pack or a BB pup and always looking for new adventures.
Today at dusk they found just that. A herd of 4 zebra came grazing close to the den. The adult dogs ignored them, but this was something new for the 6-pack. There was a foal about 6 months old in the herd and this is where their attention was focussed. But first they had to get past the stallion and he was cleverly positioning himself between the foal and the pups. Not that the pups could have taken down the foal. The stallion was fully aware of this. He continued to graze while the pups nonchalantly approached him. But just a sneeze from the stallion clearing dust out his nose and the pups scattered. Then the approach started again. This continued until nightfall and the pups abandoned the game.
Well it was all very well me seeing what was going on but as you can see in the picture I wasn’t going to have much luck filming all this. With zebra obscured by bushes and the pups hidden in the grass I wasn’t about to record some award winning footage. But look carefully in the picture and you WILL see a zebra and look even more carefully and you WILL see a pup. Good luck!
All the dogs were extremely well fed today which meant much lounging around giving me some great opportunities to get those wonderful low angle portraits of these handsome little fellows.
So although I didn’t get lucky with the zebra and alpha pups, I did get lucky with the alpha pups posing for their portraits.
I suppose I can’t always have it my way but I’m hoping perseverance will pay off sometime.
Watch this spot for further news on my trials and tribulations!
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