Ozzy, the dog who gives chase constantly but never nabs his prey, finally caught up with what he was after. It was a rooster that apparently wandered away from the safety of its home. I looked up and saw Ozzy chasing it along the shore of Melton Hill Lake until he finally nabbed it, prompting me to charge after him, telling him to let it go. By then, Xena was on the case, too.
The whole thing ended up looking like that scene from Gilligan’s Island when the mars rover lands on the island and the castaways get ready to broadcast their images back to “earth.” But they end up covered in chicken feathers, thanks to a goof-up by Gilligan, prompting NASA to think Mars is populated by strange chicken people.
Ozzy and Xena, each with a mouth full of feathers, are chasing the rooster. I’m chasing Ozzy and Xena. And somewhere in the commotion, the roster limps off into the woods. I don’t think he was too badly hurt. Just winged.
2 replies on “Choking the chicken …”
Choking the chicken, huh? Sounds like a job for steel wool:)
OK, this is a tangent, but the episode of “Gilligan’s Island” that you mentioned, Bob, is the one that makes me the craziest. Being a bit of a Type A child (who would later become utter Type A adult that I am now), Gilligan always drove me NUTS. How could anybody be that stupid, and why didn’t the other castaways club him to death with a coconut to increase their chances at rescue? It was bad enough when Gilligan ruined contraptions rigged by the professor or mispelled “SOS,” but when he screwed up the Mars rover telecast, it was just too much to bear. A high-tech marvel of the space age lands on the desert island to rescue them from a no-tech hell, and Gilligan foils it with a vaudeville stunt. In an age when most people still believed technology was going to save the world, there was deep and abiding symbolism in that episode: All the brilliant machines in the world can’t save us from one moron.
Definitely the bleakest “Gilligan” episode ever.