{"id":1483,"date":"2011-04-13T21:00:13","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T09:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2011-04-13T21:00:13","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T09:00:13","slug":"beethoven-2008-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/beethoven-2008-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Beethoven 2008-2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There’s something I like about this pic of Beethoven: the speed blur, the beady-freaking eye -. I know: her hope that there’s food beside the camera.<\/p>\n

Last Sunday, a dog – the same one as last time<\/a> – breached Fortress Mamea and attacked Beethoven. I’ve tried to write up the circumstances of the discovery a few times now but they kept yanking the post – understandably – into righteous and incandescent Frank Castle<\/a> revenge fantasies.<\/p>\n

So. A dog got another of our chickens. This one I had to put out of her misery. I’m still quite angry at how avoidable it all could have been but what’s done is done.<\/p>\n

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Beethoven was the oldest of our current squadron and, although not the brightest or most interesting, was a big fan of The Goddess’ garden (it led, at times, to some stern heart-to-hearts between them) and never passed up the offer of crickets and worms found on the property.<\/p>\n

She may have been just a chicken.<\/p>\n

But she was one of The Goddess’ chickens.<\/p>\n

She is missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s something I like about this pic of Beethoven: the speed blur, the beady-freaking eye -. I know: her hope that there’s food beside the camera. Last Sunday, a dog – the same one as last time – breached Fortress Mamea and attacked Beethoven. I’ve tried to write up the circumstances of the discovery a … <\/p>\n

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