Yesterday I returned from a day out at the supermarkets. I casually started dinner and while standing at the stove I looked out the kitchen window and saw one of the cows racing up and down the laneway. Well I figured the only way to get her to follow me was to offer her some hay. I hopped onto the tractor and with the hay on the back of the trailer started making headway down to the back of the large paddock. With all the rain we have been having the paddocks are like swamps at the moment and I was not for one moment going down there even with gumboots on. As I got down to the bottommost part I saw it was Kiarra. I couldn’t for the life of me see where she had gotten through the fence as the laneway was shut. It was worse, she was in Iris’s yard, a fact I’m sure she was not cheerful about. I tried coxing her back to me but it was hopeless. She was agitated and not happy neither. I scrutinized the fence which has three strips on it for any breaks, lent over and put my hand on the one to see if it moves. Iris must have turned on the electric fence and I got a slight shock, enough to make me know that is why Kiara hasn’t come back. She was spooked from the fence I think. I tossed some hay over the fence in the hope it would calm her down for a bit and then pondered what to do. I was flustered, I needed to go call Johnny and see where he was at as I couldn’t handle this on my own. It was roughly the time he would be on his way home from work. I’d be lying if I told you I wasn’t panicking. All I could visualize was Kiara in the road and me running after her like a wild woman screaming my head off. I turned the tractor around and about that time things started to fall apart. Overlooking the fact that the trailer was on the back, I turned too sharp and the trailer jack knifed. Irritated I tried reversing to correct it and somehow managed to connect with the fence corner post. I nearly ripped it out I’m ashamed to say. After a few manoeuvre’s I’m managed to get myself out of the trouble I’d caused and with a sigh I started making my way back up to the house to call Johnny. On the way I hit a huge pond of water and the tractor kicked up mud all over me. To say I was annoyed was an understatement. When I got back to the house, I cleaned myself up wondering all the time where Kiara was and what she was up too. I phoned Johnny and he was only about ten minutes away. When he went to get her he had to walk her back up Iris’s yard into the road and down into our gate. She followed him like a puppy dog! What grain will do? Iris on the other hand shouted out a nasty retort as he went past. What a horrible mean natured lady she is. It’s not as if we intended this to happen. Animals are unpredictable. Only the other day somebody lost two cows and had put up a sign on the streetlight pole looking for them.
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