A few moments of panic

There were a few moments of panic in my house a while ago, involving one of the roos, Mr Grumblebum, who was a rather large, but very shy and nervous joey.  Under normal circumstances he would be too big for a pouch, but because of his timidity, he has a large one, and uses it to hide away from the world.  I had just given him a bottle, and because he had made a mess of his pouch, I made him get out, while I got a clean one ready for him.  At this stage I thought everything was safe to let him get out, I had been doing everything in his pouch up till this stage, but he seemed to be settling in at last.  And I THOUGHT all other animals were safely outside.

Enter our next player, Gypsy, who looks like a toilet brush on legs, owing to her unfortunate ancestry.  On her father’s side, she is pure bred chihuahua, but her mother was a terrier of some description, and looked mostly like a long haired guinea pig gone wrong.  Gypsy has inherited her mum’s long hair, but also inherited a wire consistency to it from an ancestor further back.  Anyway, Gypsy rushed into the bedroom, preparing to take a running leap at the bed.  The joey up till this time had been quietly surveying his surroundings, and had wandered a little away from me to the side of the bed.  He took one look at this little missile and leapt straight up in the air, and landed on the queensize bed, and the next jump took him over the other side, where he landed on a pile of books, which went in all directions.  The dog took one look at the roo, and changed her mind and ran outside.  I jumped out of my chair with the new pouch and moved quickly over to the very scared roo, and showed him the pouch.  He dived straight in, double quick, and did a tumble turn the olympic swimmers would have envied.  I then settled him down, and gave him some grass which he ate later, once he’d calmed down, and then went back to restore order in the bedroom, fixing the bed and tidying the books, and taking quite a few deep breaths!  After a while, the dog came inside very quietly, and put herself on the bed while no one was looking.