08-31-2016, 11:30 PM
Uncle Boo has been absent; Catfish done gone and grown up in his absence.
The buckskin few-spot leopard mare climbs the cliffs because she can. Not because she knows better, but because she can. Oh sure, she smelled the stallion and his herd but she ignores them and trespasses anyway. She blames it on the sparklies in all the rocks around her. She can be heard saying, “Oh shiny!” more than once, as she moves between the gleaming cliffs. Catfish particularly likes the red ones, the blue ones, and the green ones. “Shine-e-e-e-y!” she can be heard exclaiming over one particular ruby-rich stone that dazzles the swamp-thing’s eyes. “My shiney,” she says, fawning over the red gem and still highly ignorant of the nearby stallion and his mares.
If only she had known he was stripey.
Except we all know that spots and stripes don’t mix…