The round table under the big bush is one of the girls’ favourite places to hang out. There are usually one or two girls on it and sometimes four or five. But when it rains this table gets wet and is then avoided.
This is the only time that the girls hang out on the wooden table instead. There is usually, only occasionally, one girl on the wooden table. For some reason it just isn’t as popular as the other table until it’s a wet day. This table stays dry.
Our favourite table is wet so we will just have to hang out on here instead
Five girls on the wooden table
Speckles doesn’t get to share the dry table
Poor Speckles is bottom girl and isn’t allowed on either table at the same time as any of the other girls. She is often on either table when it is empty though. She has found a small dry edge to cling to. It doesn’t look very comfortable. I know someone has to be bottom girl but I do feel sorry for Speckles.
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I feel sorry for Speckles as well .. But she knows her place and has enough common sense to do her own thing .
When Bonny was around she was the same always the loner but knew that being on her own gave her an advantage sometimes like when the others scrambled for treats she would trot off and have a bowl somewhere else to her self .
Anyway why would you want to share a table with 5 others when you could have one to yourself?
You are right. Speckles has it sussed and when there is mash or apple on the patio she waits until the rest have moved away and then goes and has it to herself in peace and perhaps she doesn’t want to sit on the tables while other girls are there, perhaps she prefers to have the table to herself, again in peace.