Oh Nugget! It never rains but it pours eh?
I think if I were you I'd be yelling at the contactor that he should've got it right first time!
Thinking of your geese reminds me of this one time at my parents. They've got 2 budgies (they were my brother's, but he got bored!) who have the spare room to themselves most of the time and fly in and out of their cage as they please. They've also got a Springer Spaniel, Jake. You might see where this is going!
Jake has always known that the budgies were off-limits, or so we thought. But one day, when I was home on my own, I heard this weird noise and came out of my room to find the dog walking out of the spare room... with a bird in his mouth! Looking back on it, it was so funny. Classic cartoon moment - he'd grabbed the bird neatly with its head out one side of his mouth and it's tail the other! The poor thing was looking up at me!
Anyway...I just screamed at the dog to DROP!!!! And for once he obeyed me and just cowered! The poor bird flew away to the other side of the landing and I bundled the dog out into the garden.
When I came back, the budgie was nowhere to be seen. I was totally freaking out at this point. My fiance rang up and I was like "The dog ATE the budgie! And I've LOST it! I've gotta go!". He laughed soooo much, but it wasn't funny for me at the time!
I searched for ages and finally found the terrified budgie hiding UNDER my brother's bed, with his little chest going up and down so fast, I thought he was going to have a heart attack! Somehow, he was fine. I guess I should thank the people who trained Jake as a gun dog. He only knows how to grab things so they're not damaged I guess.
It was the most stressful experience, but now it makes me laugh! Animals are a liability aren't they!
Don't blame yourself Nugget. These things happen...and you're not the only one! We just have to get through them as best we can - that's life. There's a favourite quote of mine from 'The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood' (a must-read book)... "Life is short, but it is wide...This too shall pass". We can get round these problems.
Linz
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