DUKE! . . . AGAIN!

I was trying to locate Ladybug again yesterday and walked back over there to the far side of the house.  No Bug . . . but there was Duke -- eating bushes along that fence line AGAIN!

But wait -- I had trimmed back all those red-tip photinia bushes before, so NOW what's he eating??  Got up there closer and discovered that he was actually eating the Holly bush! . . . thorns and all!!  Can you believe that!!

I swear, that boy is SO bad!  So I did the obvious  -- I got rid of yet another bush.

That pile there is what USED to be the holly bush.  No more!

I HOPE those bushes are all far enough from the fence now that he will leave them alone.   But if  Duke can STILL manage to nibble on them I guess we'll be digging them out altogether next.  He is SO bad!

While I was over there trimming back the holly I discovered a couple OTHER things.  First of all, Bug seems to have decided on a second bathroom facility for herself.  I thought she was going back over to her paddock when she had to go since I never see any piles anywhere in the front yard, but in fact it seems she's been going BEHIND those bushes over there along the chain link fence.  (She's such a tidy girl.)  Hey -- that works for me.  It's not visible from anywhere - and it's probably very good for the bushes, too!  

But another thing I noticed over there is that there is SOMETHING living in the ground there.  No idea what it is, but whatever it is -- it's LARGE.  That hole is more than a foot  wide.  Hope whatever it is doesn't bite horses!  Mark says it's probably an armadillo, though, so I guess that's not a hazard to Bug.  In fact, if she sees it, she's probably going to be the  hazard to IT!