She'd stand up on hind legs and pat your leg with her front paws for food, and would scratch the fridge so I would pull out a piece of lettuce!
That reminds me of something that happened years ago, right after we moved onto the property where we now live. We're in a very remote area in southwest Kansas. Rolling sandhills, sage brush and yucca (no trees unless we plant them and put them on drip irrigation!) in the middle of the Cimarron National Grasslands. (We've lived here for 34 years and now have more than 3,000 trees and shrubs on the property that used to be overgrazed grass pasture.)
We had to build a road by hand, then bring in electricity underground from an oil well about a mile away. Finally drilled a well and moved in a mobile home we'd bought when we first started looking for land. Here we were, absolutely isolated. No phone lines, no TV cable (long before satellite TV), no neighbors for at least 5 miles, and 13 miles from the nearest very small town. We were in heaven!!! (Still are!)
Anyway, I built a little wood bench outside a kind of picture window in the house. Made a feeder out of an old, gray rotted tree branch. Would fill the feeder with rolled milo to feed the quail. We loved watching all the wildlife that would come right up to the house. All kinds of birds, deer and cottontail rabbits.
One evening I decided to try something. I sat on the bench, poured a little pile of milo on top of each shoe, then filled both hands with milo and bent over, holding my hands about a foot off the ground. Within minutes the cottontails started gathering. I used to have a photo my wife took... Seven cottontails eating, some off my shoes, some standing on their hind legs with their paws on my hands and arms as they all ate. And these were WILD rabbits. That was a hoot!!
Thanks for reminding me of that funnies50!
