Who Turned The Lights Out?

This morning I heard the dogs beginning to move around. I squinted my eyes toward the clock on the bed stand, but the clock was blank. I sat up and looked toward my nightlight. It was dark. The electricity was off. What happened?

I woke Rob and we got dressed and started getting the dogs out. I took the Water Dogs downstairs, thru the garage and into the back yard. Rob took Tsar and Morgan into the front yard. My neighbor called over that their power was out, too and she had heard the transformer pop.

When Rob came inside he told me what had happened and we called the power company to come fix the problem.

It seems that one of our neighborhood pests was using the sky highway when he was overcome by an urge to have a snack.

He did, only he chose to bite down on the power line.

Rob found him dead at the foot of the telephone pole with a bloody mouth. There'll be one less pest raiding the bird feeder today.