Almost a brawl, but my head was in the way nonetheless

I was going to let Rusty sleep with me last night, but after 1/2 hr. Yoda jumped up beside my head and Rusty kicked into defend mom mode, and charged after him, with my head in the way. So Rusty got booted out of the room, and Yoda snuggled with me.

But, the reason I post is Jennifer asked about the chicken whacking (too bad we can't see all the comments beside the posts.). Most of my dealings with dead critters take place out at the farm. The dogs had mangled a chicken, it was still flopping, so I thought I should put it out of its misery. I think it just traumatized us both more. But in hindsight the chicken may have already been dead, or been past caring about getting its neck brutalized with an in effective ax.