The Unnamed Dog........

Welcome to the family the as yet to be named dog. At least she will pose for the camera. Bandit, my big old border collie takes off running if he sees a camera in anyone hands.

Origami Girl found this creature in the back of our yard behind a shed on Wednesday. She went back to try and get her out but the dog was missing, we thought maybe she had gotten out of the yard and gone back home, wherever that is. Thursday my son saw that the poor thing as still in the yard. So we became her foster family. We called animal control to make a report and put posters all over the neighborhood. We have had no results sadly. If her true owner does turn up I will happily turn her over. But it appears the kids have bonded and she may be staying. Did I mention I do not like chihuahuas? So far though she is a very quiet dog. It seems that she may have been somebodies lap dog. It also appears that she has been hand fed a lot of people food which will have to come to a stop.

My Neurotic Dog has Struck Again!!!

I have a very neurotic border collie. Any type of banging or popping sound drives him insane. Anything similar to fireworks or gunfire or a swinging screen door.

He has done some serious damage over the last few years. I can not leave the dogs outside when I leave the house to go anywhere because he panics and jumps the fence. When I leave the dogs in the house and I go somewhere I pray the wind doesn't pick up and cause a noise that will frighten him.

I have come home to some total disasters. He has torn down several mini blinds fighting to get out the windows. Now when I go somewhere I go through the house and make sure that every window is locked. A couple weeks ago when I went to town he jumped on top of my dresser, knocking down my huge tower of acrylic paints and a few other odds and ends and forced the window open. What a mess.

Once again he pulled another stunt this week. I had made sure that all the windows were locked but he again jumped on my dresser and managed to get my window unlocked and knocked over a stack of pictured in frames and a very large television. I havent tested the television yet to see if it is damaged but there was pieces of broken glass everywhere from the busted up picture frames.. what a mess.

Doggy valium is definitely needed.

Look at this innocent looking guy, surely he isnt the culprit.

Harley Come Home

November 17th two of our dogs got out of our yard. It wasn't the first time they have gotten out. We are always working on the fence trying to figure out how they do it. Usually they will just get out of the back yard enclosure and come around and hang out in the front yard until someone lets them in. Not this time. They were gone.

We searched and searched for days. We had posters all over the place. People called saying they had seen them but we could never get there in time. We were always in the right place wrong time. We were very worried because these two dogs are very skittish and we knew they wouldnt go to any stranger. So we knew nobody would ever be able to catch them.

I have called animal control, humane society etc. numerous times to see if they had any sightenings. Never any luck. There was one lady who got our number off the posters who called often to check and see if we had found them.

We kept this up for several weeks before we took our signs down and gave up. Finally several weeks after they had run away we received a very sad call. There was a possible sighting many many miles from our home but the dog was dead. My hubby and son went out and took care of it. It was definitely one of ours.

After that we totally gave up any hope. There was no way that the other dog could be alive. She is a very slender dog to begin with. She couldnt survive the desert elements. All we could do was hope that somebody had lured her in with food and she was safe and sound with a new family.

Fast forward to January 10th (today). I opened my front door at 6 AM to take my oldest to school. I couldn't believe who was on my doorstep. It was our other missing dog. Actually it frightened me for about a second. It was still very dark outside and this dog is mostly black with some white markings and has one dark eye and one blue eye.

It has been 54 days and here she is. Right on my doorstep!

She looks like she has been on the run the whole time she was gone. She is in pretty rough shape. She is very very thin. She is whining a bit. Definitely in some pain, won't put one of her back paws down. And her paws are covered in tar. I will probably have to shave most of those sections to remove the tar, luckily I do have dog clippers. We are going to feed her a little bit at a time today so that she doesnt over do it. She is sleeping most of the day away in between her feedings. I had to let my 10 year old daughter stay home today to help me out. I want to try and keep our returning dog apart from my other dog because I dont know how snappy she will be.

Well how is that for a feel good story for the day