A Zebra Round For dinner

We arrived back at our little house in Marloth park just after 6pm and as soon as the car pulled up 3 Kudu came strutting out of the brush and straight over to the feeding area.
Pete went straight into the house and grabbed 2 handfuls of pellets and scattered some on the ground and hand fed one of the females.
Funnily enough after just 3 days of being here this feels normal and we just sat and watched them eating and staring at us while Ellie prepared half a peach filled with Sugar for the Bush Babies. Then just as she jumped in the shower the bush babies appeared in the trees and Pete and I watched them bounce from tree to tree.
When Ellie came out of the shower I jumped in just to wash the Kruger sand off and as soon as I opened the door to come out with a just a towel wrapped around me, Pete was standing there.
“Quick, Come and see “ he said and pulled me around to the back of the house where we had been sitting and there at the table was a Zebra.
Ellie said he had just strolled straight up and didn’t even look scared and there she was feeding a zebra across the dinner table by hand.
Pete threw another bunch of Pellets on the ground and then the zebra shifted from Ellie to munching his way around the patio.
Once the floor pellets had run out he just came back to the table, lent right over it knocking a cup over onto the floor and smashing it and that didn’t even phase him. Then he picked up the half a lettuce left on the table and ate that. Still he wanted more.
This zebra was going nowhere, and now we were his herd and despite him trying to follow us in the house a couple of times he was pretty cool to have. He was also a little intimidating when he put his head in the table and just stared at us begging for food, and we felt extremely guilty eating our dinner while he just stood there 4 foot away watching us.
After dinner because he hadn’t tried taking our dinner we decided to give him more pellets and he seemed satisfied with that and in return he spent the rest of the night guarding us.
He was our friend and we were obviously his herd now and he stood just 4 foot infront of us the whole of the evening until we had to go to bed, even then he stood there on guard and made us feel guilty, but we were glad to escape the zebra farts but did hope that he would either still be there in the morning or atleast come back for another visit.Читать далее