Jessie’s Shadow

Jessie’s showing signs of her age (she’s coming up on fourteen) and doesn’t move as steadily or as fast as she used to. Despite her recent apparent hunting prowess, it’s come to this now:

Zoom in, look at that tree in the upper left of the picture. On the left-hand side of that tree there are two limb stumps sticking out. Do you see what’s sitting on the top branch?

Yep, there were two of them, running along that back wall, chattering. Jessie only looked up once or twice but never moved to chase them or even bark. After she started nodding off again, the bold one came down to take a closer look.

Wait, I just figured it out! Jessie’s not old and tired, she’s incredibly clever! She’s faking them out, waiting for them to fall into her trap and come down onto the ground and get close. Then she’ll leap up and in a blur of frenzied canine fury she’ll rend them limb from limb!

Brilliant, lil’ Jess, simply brilliant!