One morning while Ashley was out on a walk with Lula, she caught a snake. She tricked Alyssa into thinking that the snake just slithered into her backpack and that she had no idea it was there, but I knew better. It sounds exactly like something Ashley would do - catch a snake and bring it home for Lula to play with...

They had fun with it in the backyard for a couple of hours. But they were starting to get attached to it, so I encouraged them to let it go back into the wild so that it could live...somewhere besides in our backyard. Ashley and the boys shed some tears, but finally let it go. They had named the snake Joey. Danny hates snakes and I knew that it needed to be long gone before he got home from work. 

Then, last week, Lula actually caught a bird in our backyard. She chases them all of the time, but they usually fly away before she gets to them. But this magpie did not get away fast enough. We think she may have injured it a bit because it stuck around our yard for a few days. The kids named it Bluey and it was not scared of Ashley, at all. It even hopped onto her lap one time.