Thanks everyone...glad you all have enjoyed the pic.
capall beag...they just all line up there, as they know if they dilly dally around, they will be chased off. They all stand and get right down to their grain. There used to be the regular "shuffle" of one chasing another off, but they soon reallize if they spend all their time being witchy and chasing others around, they lose out on their meal, because someone of a higher rank will come along and chase them off!
I always have an extra place or two set out so no one goes without if they do get chased off.
sedeh...no, I really can't blame him for dropping that little gift for me either...I know it sure would have scared the crap out of me too!
Yes, he really is bonding well with them. I had my dounts at first, but he spends more and more time right out laying amongst them and just watching them during the day. I used to go for a walk every day and take him will be(on leash), and he seemed to spend all his day at the house, worried he would be left behind. I stopped going for my walkes, and stopped taking him, so not he seems to have accepted he isn't missing out on anything anymore, so has once again "joined the herd", and spend much more time out there with them, then waiting at the door for me all the time, and that makes me so happy to see him just laying out there in the field watching them.