boneyard

So. The other day, I saw Venga playing outside, intently burying her face in some foreign object that I couldn't really see from my post at the window, but was pretty sure would choke or otherwise maim her in some way.

I went to out to investigate and found this:



Then, I went to investigate from a different angle, and found this:




Looks a lot like a skull of some kind, doesn't it? And it would appear that I've become the sort of person who allows her dog to gnaw on skeletons of small creatures, wouldn't it?




Don't be ridiculous. Obviously, I picked up the goat skull (which is what the Boy insists it is, the skull of a goat or possibly a lamb or other small-ish farm animal long expired,) piercing a long stick through one of its sockets so as to avoid contracting any kind of bone-residing disease, and flung it immediately deep into the woods.


Well, almost immediately.