With a few acres of rural property near Milton to explore each day, Indy has a seemingly endless supply of impromptu wildlife playmates. The latest of these created quite the social media buzz on Thursday, July 4, setting a new benchmark for her adventurous shenanigans.
“That’s why they make dogs so cute, cuz who would tolerate that, right?,” owner Jennifer Sibbitt said with a laugh.
This lighthearted musing follows Indy’s afternoon run-in with a fairly large garter snake on the family’s Brookville front yard – in plain view of the doorbell camera.
Initially thinking her five-year-old rescue husky/shepherd might be eating the reptile, Sibbitt rushed out to address the situation. That’s when Indy – with obedient precision – hurled the snake directly at her unsuspecting owner.
“I can still feel it on the back of my neck,” said Sibbitt, a bookkeeper and president of the Campbellville Community Association. “I wasn’t expecting her to launch it at me. She obviously thought it was a toy. I don’t think she was trying to hurt it. She's very, very playful."
With footage too good not to share, she immediately posted the encounter on Facebook, setting off a tidal wave of amusement and double-digit views among her followers.
“I’m just glad there was the doorbell footage or nobody would have believed me,” said Sibbitt, who initially thought the snake had been killed from its forceful flight but soon found it stirring and moved it to the other side of the home’s fence, out of Indy’s reach. “Just more wild shenanigans at our household.”
This refers to the multitude of mice, voles and other little critters Indy has brought home over the years, as well as friendship attempts with larger inhabitants of her rural property.
Said Sibbitt, “She's always chasing bunnies and squirrels. If it moves and squeaks, she’s all for it.”
