Our first notice of veggie stealing was what seemed bites out of tomatoes, and then one morning I went to pick the cucumber I KNEW was going to be ready - and no sign of it. Just gone. Cucumber leaves are big and hide a lot, but I looked and looked for it and never found it. Armadillo or something. I decided we needed to let Darby sleep outside and keep watch, but then we knew from experience with a possum in a tree that she would only bark all night long, keep the neighors awake, and refuse to come in.
Then Wednesday I was having a good time cutting some zinnias and cosmos for a bouquet and found 2 banana peppers and 2 cucumbers just right for picking along with more tomatoes.
As I leaned over to cut one more flower, I dropped the green vegetables into the flower bed. When I started to pick them up, I found the 2 peppers but only 1 cucumber. What?! I retraced my steps - twice - back to the vegetable bed and looked again in the flower bed but still no cucumber. I figured I would chalk it up to old age - or something.
Then later that day Mike came in with this.
He had found Darby with it in her mouth refusing to give it up. He popped her under the chin a few times and finally she dropped it. She refuses anything to eat but meat and dogfood, but she'll chomp on vegetables. I then remembered that she had been with me during my harvesting but all of a sudden had business to tend to in the far corner of the yard. Mike also found a few tomatoes scattered around the area with bite marks in them.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised. I found this picture of her 7 years ago in Columbus when she was just a puppy. That's a yellow squash that she found and carried around for days.
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