Walter Update

Walter has been here for a while.  His owner every now and then takes him somewhere for the day but by night fall he is back at our house.  While I have no problem with that, I just can not believe his owner's gall.

For those readers that do not live in Texas...we have been having a lot of rain these past months. While this is good considering the state has been in extremely drought conditions, it has been both a blessing and a curse.

The native grasses and weeds have grown exponentially and there is a lot of mud from the already saturated ground and the daily downpours.  It would be difficult for me to carry gallons of water to his corral under these circumstances.  Having him here makes me feel better knowing at least he has fresh cool water. Make no mistake even in the shade he drinks at least 20 gallons.

While he is fed at least once a day his feeding schedule is not consistent.  He has even taken to eating the dogs food.  I have to feed them when he is in the other lots or he will come running wanting his share.

I looked out the window and noticed that the baby tree that had so much foliage looked different...like the ants had eaten the leaves.  Lord and behold, it wasn't the ants...it was Walter who had been munching on it!

I could care less if he eats and even kills the mesquite trees but I draw the line at shade trees!  He has also been squeezing himself into the garage and since he is so big, he has moved the car side mirrors. Solved that by parking closer to the wall and leaving more space for him to escape the rain, sun and hail. Surprisingly during a rather severe storm instead of being in the carport/garage...he was by my bedroom window as the water was rising and covering his ankles!

He is getting along better with the dogs or rather they with him.  It is funny to watch Pedrito interacting with him.

The other day that he was nowhere to be found, I walked to his corral and it is apparent that his owner does not plan on putting him back in there anytime soon.  He has the food canisters for both him and Dulcinea there along with some other junk and it is overgrown with weeds.  As usual, I did not have my camera with me!

I think I am going to have to go back to buying him horse pellets as I do not know how to break him of this new found habit of nibbling on shade trees.