Week 354 ( 4th - 10th June 2010 )
Hulooo hits the bottle and Cathay welcomes 327 back
Early in the week Hulooo was responsible for a lighter moment during my otherwise uneventful monitoring session. He discovered me at the energiser box and hid from view behind a tiny bush that scarcely hid his face. Here his motto was that if he couldn’t see me I couldn’t see him. Pretending that I couldn’t see him and calling his name I walked closer and he sank even lower behind the bush trying to hide as much of himself as he could behind his itty-bitty bush. Eventually he bounced out and after making a big performance aimed at drawing my attention to his presence and he chuffed and then walked off down the fence. I turned my back on him and presently heard the strangest sound. Turning around I located the source; he had stumbled upon a bottle half-filled with water that the staff had accidentally left behind and pawed it closer. He then gave it a good sniff before rolling it over in an attempt to pick it up. After much snorting he finally managed to grab hold of the cap and walked off with it hanging from his mouth and the liquid sloshing inside. He walked around in circles unsure of what he really wanted to do with it and then he found a thick patch of reeds. He forced his way into the middle of the clump, still armed with the bottle, he prepared to annihilate it. As he settled down the reeds bent under his weight and he looked at me sheepishly as I laughed at him
Cathay and 327 were staying in adjacent camps and the time arrived to reunite them. She started chuffing as soon as 327 left the shelter, still chuffing she raced through the gateway leaving 327 spinning. She dashed around the camp and returned to 327 and they patted one another on the head and played footsie-footsie and she galloped off again. Ten metres away she stopped, turned and stood with her butt in the air, seconds later she gave her butt a wiggle and charged at 327 and he started running. She cut in front of him and threw herself to the ground in front of his feet forcing him to jump over her. Mid-jump she grabbed him from below and pulled him to the ground, he managed to find his feet and raced off… stopping when he saw that she wasn’t following. In the interim Cathay readied a second charge and put the action to the word but before she reached him a scent caught her attention and she screeched to a halt and investigated; pulling a funny face as she deciphered the message. 327 wandered around scent marking and Cathay followed his example. A while later 327 made his way into the Quarantine Camp and Cathay widened her search for hidden communications. 327 followed his nose into the Breeding Centre where he spent some time overlaying Cathay’s scent with his own. He crossed over to the gate to chuff at the boys but the smells in the building reeled him back in. Cathay made herself comfortable – lying down in the middle of Hope’s Camp.