Gary was by the back door. I heard this exchange from the other side of the house.
“No! Stop it — Stop, I’m trying to help you.”
He sounded sweet. (None of the usual ALL CAPS tone he takes with me.)
He went on, “You don’t want to be in here. There you go, Theeeere you go. Good boy.”
I assumed a sweet little bunny got caught inside the house. But no.
A fly. He was gently ushering a fly back out to the yard. Sweet. And yet …Ridiculous.
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… okay that is fabulous and also hilarious at the same time. (we put spiders outside but indoor flies die, unless it’s easier to open the door and let them out, and mosquitoes die With Extreme Prejudice) But the baby bunny voice for a fly… on the plus side, he *does have* a baby bunny voice? So there is that…
KC – It reminded me of the time 30 mice bred while he was buying humane mousetraps. Sad that I get less courtesy than a fly, though.
Maybe he just considers you Strong and Intelligent rather than in need of fragile-handle-with-care sorts of treatment but… tbh, I’d be at least a bit annoyed.
KC – it seems the less time he spends around me the more agreeable he becomes.
We do tend to treat Scarce Resources differently from Always Around Resources, unfortunately. There are other relational/known-ness advantages to Always Around, but… yeah. Leave for a week and suddenly your spouse is more interesting than they had been for a year, usually. (the “usually” exception is a bit of an issue because living alone also has its advantages, esp. for introverts. But I suspect Gary is at minimum not full introvert.)
KC – So, the stubbornly loyal resources are treated the worst. ThT is a shame. If course, that means I should probably treat him better.