A frightening, but brief, experience

Have you ever been in one of those situations where you're in that sub-conscious state in your sleep, and you hear a noise....? You begin to wake up slowly, pushing the fog of sleep aside while your brain tries to analyze the sound?

Last night around 11:30pm, that very thing happened. I heard something, I could never describe the sound, but in my sleepy state it took a while to put a name to the noise. "Is it two cats fighting?", "Coyotes on our property?", "A herd of turkeys going down our road?" Then it hit me. I sat bolt upright in bed as I realized what it was! "Llamas!!" It was our neighbors llamas screaming in fear!

The only thing I could think of that would dare try to nab on of those llamas was a cougar, so I leapt out of bed, and tried to see if I could see anything from the safety of indoors. Mom joined me on the watch a few moments later, wondering what the unearthly shrieking was. Poor Copper was so terrified by the sound that he zoomed under a bed pushing buckets and boxes aside as he went. ;)

Now this is going to sound pretty silly, but I was so glad that I was not a guy, right then and there. If I was, then I would've had to go outside and see what the problem was! How much better to stay inside where it was safe! ;D There was nothing mom and I could do, so we went back to bed.... But sleep had left me....

This morning we 'phoned our neighbor to see if she knew what had happened.

Her answer?

"I didn't hear anything last night. And they both showed up for their breakfast this morning!"

Well, maybe those ornery llamas managed to scare away whatever it was.... :)

~Caitlyn