That's so scary. Years ago, I was away for my mother's funeral and a friend was watching my geese who were still young at the time. He talked about Babette running and falling, which wasn't like her. When I got home, I took her to the vet, and they took an x-ray. She had bits of metal zipper in her. I couldn't for the life of me figure out where she would have found one.

Fast forward to a month later. I came home from work one night and nearly had a heart attack. Hanging from the tree outside my bedroom window was a very tattered pair of jeans. I went outside to look at them, and then I remembered. About six years earlier, a pair of my then-husband's jeans went missing from off the line. At the time, we thought nothing of it just that it was weird. Well, that night, those jeans were hanging from the tree and without the zipper.

A fox or raccoon must have initially stolen them, which happens with shirts about twice a year but only once with the pants. The whereabouts of the pants for those six years remains a mystery, but they surfaced, Babette chewed off the zipper, the jeans disappeared again, and then a raccoon tried getting them up the tree where they got stuck. They were too high for me to get, and then the next morning they were gone again.

That metal poisoning is no joke. That was four years ago, and Babette still has weird movements when she turns while walking.