{"id":47,"date":"2008-04-12T16:00:48","date_gmt":"2008-04-12T23:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/?p=47"},"modified":"2009-04-05T13:44:26","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T20:44:26","slug":"scene-of-the-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"Scene of the Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48\" title=\"fishgarden\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/fishgarden.jpg\" alt=\"fishgarden\" width=\"269\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/fishgarden.jpg 269w, https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/fishgarden-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/>This morning I noticed a gallant hawk perched on a side rail of the gazebo.\u00a0\u00a0 I wondered why she didn&#8217;t move at all when Taco or Dalai ran into the yard.\u00a0 She did move away however as I entered the grass.\u00a0 I watched her fly over the neighbor&#8217;s wall and cruse off into the distance.\u00a0 Then I noticed the two dogs were all a twitter.\u00a0 They were rushing back and forth around the dirt area between the gazebo and our solar water garden.\u00a0 At first I didn&#8217;t pay any mind &#8230;figured they were hearing something in the quarry behind our house.\u00a0 But Taco came over to me and insisted I come investigate.\u00a0 As I approached the water garden I could see that the water was all murky.\u00a0 The lily pads were in shreds and even the potted plants had been up rooted.\u00a0 Apparently the Hawk had breakfast reservations.<\/p>\n<p>Dalai&#8217;s behavior around the crime scene was unprecedented.\u00a0 She would approach slowly with her nose to the ground and then back away as if she had seen a ghost.\u00a0 At first I didn&#8217;t see what it was that she was sensing.\u00a0 Then I noticed just a few large goldfish scales on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;ve seen Dalai with dead things before (dead baby birds, snails, bugs etc.) and she is always <em>Curious George<\/em>.\u00a0 But this was different.\u00a0 She wouldn&#8217;t go anywhere near the water garden.<\/p>\n<p>Even when Richard came out two hours later, to see if any of our fish remained, Dalai stood in the yard barking her head off &#8212; warning us we shouldn&#8217;t be there.\u00a0 She must have been able to smell something (energy field) that we couldn&#8217;t see.<\/p>\n<p>As for the goldfish, only one remained and it was in deep hiding &#8230; and for the others, I suspect they have ascended and transformed themselves into hawk and are soaring free and high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I noticed a gallant hawk perched on a side rail of the gazebo.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-cant-see"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}