{"id":7043443,"date":"2026-08-22T00:45:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T00:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/animal\/we-are-absolutely-not-talking-to\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T00:45:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T00:45:38","slug":"we-are-absolutely-not-talking-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7043443","title":{"rendered":"We Are Absolutely Not Talking To\u2026.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>We are absolutely not talking to Pepper today.\u00a0 She has disgraced herself beyond redemption.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-84864\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/My-Shetland-6535.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/My-Shetland-6535.jpg 600w, https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/My-Shetland-6535-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>She was found with a baby Muscovy duckling hanging out of her mouth \u2013 tragically, dead.\u00a0 I am pretty sure it was the one and only duckling that I didn\u2019t know had hatched.\u00a0 Mummy Duck has been nesting under the container for, what seems like, years and finally produced a baby, only for Pepper to immediately murder it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-84863\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/My-Shetland-6536.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/My-Shetland-6536.jpg 600w, https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/My-Shetland-6536-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Pepper has been following me around all day, begging forgiveness and we\u2019ve had a long conversation about friends, not food but I fear it has gone in one ear and out the other.\u00a0 And to quote my grandmother \u201cI am very disappointed\u201d, which is far worse than furious in our house.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-84861\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/My-Shetland-6538.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>No else cares or possibly knows about her heinous crime.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-84862\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/My-Shetland-6534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, we are all talking to Newt.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-84860\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/My-Shetland-6541.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Because he has a yummy scrummy nosey that needs kissing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-84859\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/My-Shetland-6542.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Go on, I dare you!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-84858\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/My-Shetland-6543.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/My-Shetland-6543.jpg 600w, https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/My-Shetland-6543-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Newt is today\u2019s Good Boy.\u00a0 Mostly because he is standing in the only clean container and not stirring up trouble, though I did hear a rumour at breakfast that he was his usual despotic self, but it was only a rumour, mind. It\u2019s not like he killed our one and only duckling that I didn\u2019t know we had.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, Pepper \u2013 the disappointment.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-84857\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/My-Shetland-6544.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-border-color\" style=\"border-style:none;border-width:0px;margin-top:32px;margin-bottom:32px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\" style=\"margin-bottom:24px\"\/>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" style=\"margin-top:4px;margin-bottom:10px\">Discover more from My Shetland<\/h3>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:15px\">Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;appId=249643311490&version=v2.3\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are absolutely not talking to Pepper today.\u00a0 She has disgraced herself beyond redemption. 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