Red started to come into the barn this morning but found Strut the rooster blocking the door. He decided it was his barn and he wasn’t letting anybody in.  Strut came into the barn following me, clucking and crowing to try and bully me into giving him and the chickens some feed. This could have been a problem, but Red just waited until Strut was through puffing himself up. When Strut moved a few feet towards me, Red skittered past him and into the barn and out the gate towards the sheep. Animals interact with one another all of the time. Rose probably would have gone after the rooster, Orson and Frieda have killed him, Lenore would try to kiss him on the nose. Rose has great poise with other animals, there are no tense confrontations, nothing one has to pay attention to. I can only imagine that on his farm in Ireland he had much exposure to all of the farm’s animals.

I appreciate that I can trust Red in situations like this, it matters in our lives.