Poppy is useful!

We often complain to Poppy that she is the only animal on the farm who is not useful. After two years she was determined to show us to be wrong.

Two quail have escaped recently. One we kept seeing for a while then stopped. The other we had not seen since it winged off in to the distance a few days ago. Yesterday Poppy found this second one in the bit of the house that is being reroofed. It flew off, with Poppy in hot pursuit, and landed in a large bramble patch a couple of hundred meters down the hill. Poppy won't normally go in to brambles - she is a princess you know - but this time she dived in and came out with the quail in her mouth. She came running straight to us without even being called and placed the still alive quail in to Doug's hand. We have put it back in the cage with the others and she seems fine, just a couple of feathers ruffled.

Poppy got a lot of treats!