Shirley is really doing well. She has been spending all of her time with Tarra, putting in miles every few days as she moved throughout the habitat. She left the northern area where Bunny was buried and traveled down to the lake, spent time in the left and then right field with Tarra and Bella, and then climbed the hill up Lake Road in the direction of the barn.
Tarra and Bella returned to the barn a few days ago to spend time with Misty and Dulary, who have been entertaining themselves with morning baths in Dulary’s pond. After a few hours Tarra and Bella were discovered back with Shirley in the woods on the way back to the lake.
Shirley and Tarra are seldom separated for more than a few hours. Shirley naps several hundred feet off the road in the woods and does not even bother to get up when the 4-wheeler approaches with meals. She knows the caregivers are persistent and will not leave the area until she is located and fed. When Shirley does rise, she has sleepy eyes and a mat of grass stuck to the side of her face; the give-away that she has been sleeping. Shirley is no longer carrying a heavy burden; she is soft and calm and appears to be moving through her grief well.