The dogs had a double whammy today. They’re killing machines at the moment, killing every day and sometimes twice a day.
Today they killed a female impala and 8 of the dogs fed themselves to busting. In the meantime the other 2 pups had killed but they had company, a couple of hyaenas.
Only when the others had finished their kill did they realise the 2 needed help and scooted off there.
But the dogs were all well fed and not too concerned with the hyaenas picking up the scraps. That’s all that was left, the skin and bones. With each scrap the hyaenas took, the dogs took advantage of their mouth’s being full and ran in to nip the hyaenas on the backside. The funny thing of course being, the hyaenas squealing in anticipation of each nip!
Over the last few days the dogs have been covering a lot of territory, from right in the very west, to the very northern boundary and now nearly on the very eastern boundary. I wonder if this is Puzzles in her pregnant state being restless, and why would she want to travel so far?
On the hunts she now lags back all the time, her big tummy weighing her down.
Well actually I wonder at times if her tummy is bigger than the others. They’ve been so successful hunting recently that they all have big rounded tummies. But I think hers is the biggest. There’s till no sign of any teat development though, and also no sign of her digging at any other dens.
I’ve been making good progress with my walking ventures with the dogs. And a couple of days ago when hyaenas stole their kill and were feeding I got out the car and walked towards them. The dogs were standing around them chattering and not concerned with my approach, but when the hyaenas saw me, they panicked, dropped everything and ran. I think I scored some points with the dogs.
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