Back with Animals

We have just had a flying visit home to the Phils where I was able to see my pigs and piglets. Recently one very good mother gave birth without calling for the usual night assistance they seem to like. And giving birth to the fifteen healthy piglets unaided means some of her kids will become breeding stock rather than being sold later for lechon!
But what a difference between the UK, or the Gulf, and the Phils where animals abound and are both interesting and useful. A glance in the trees as you drive along can often spot a nesting animal, which can be a sight well worthwhile. Especially if you have your hunting gun with you. Personally I do all my hunting with the camera, and do not admit exactly where I have shot any particular animal in view of the fact that Filipinos seem to take after the Chinese in the way they will eat anything that lives!And, of course, as can be seen below, they also make sure that animals are made useful members of the community and they provide some proper input to the work of a farm.
But, as to me, I just like, as is well known, to see the odd frog or two, since somehow they warm my heart, whether climbing around our trees or sitting down for a chat. Unlike Charlie I talk to frogs, not to trees; and another difference is that my wife is beautiful, as I tell any frog who will sit and listen for a moment.
However there a some rare times when I miss seeing the well trained animals and their riders providing protection to our Royalty back in the UK.