Fun with Beagles and Terriers!
I gotta remember to get the camera out, sigh. Even tho I don’t trust it to work right all the time.
That means… no photos, yet again.
Anyhow. I’ve been bringing the beagle kids in the house this week. Pretty soon it’s going to be winter and we won’t get walkies every day. Oh, we’ll go if I can walk without slip sliding away and it isn’t actually raining or something… the cold won’t stop me, just precipitation and it being dark before I get home from work.
The poor Beagle kids haven’t been in the house for much of the summer. Heck, WE aren’t in the house if we can help it for nice weather. And I love my dogs in the house… get to have lots more love and fun things like hunt the laser bug.
Sadie came in and immediately started looking at the floor… waiting for the laser bug! BunBun got her nummy bone and immediately ran around the whole house trying to find that perfect spot to hide it and save it for later. BuddyMack stole a partially chewed bone, got on the couch and just started having fun with it. Rita growled at everyone, and tried to be the boss. Hey, they were stealing her nummy bones, messing up her couch, stealing her toys… She hasn’t lived here that long but she’s known me for longer than the beagles ages combined. Far as she’s concerned she’s the top dog. Sadie doesn’t think so. Sadie is the Momma Dog and no 13 lb Brat terrier is gonna be HER boss!
I’d bet my money on the 35 lb Sadie against Rita. Yes, Sadie has gotten rather overweight… I could barely lift her to step on the scale and Ron had to read the scale for me. I think I’d better start buying some diet dog food and making Sadie’s dinner seperate. I think 35 lbs is kind of… well, Sadie is now built like a tank!
Other than a bit of growling here and there, everyone was on good behaviour. Dogkids got groomed and petted and treats and loved on… and I want a new fence and steps so that I can do this with less trouble!
Oh, at work this week, they asked me to stay late… and I said… but who will walk my dogs? Sorry, can’t stay late, my dogs depend on me. I have a narrow window of time when I get home now… if I stay late at work then it’s too dark to walk dogs. People that live in town don’t understand this… I can’t walk dogs down by the pond in the pitch black night. A flashlight is not quite good enough. When it’s dark, it’s DARK out in the country. And I’ve seen a bear only a mile from the house here… heck, in the dark I wouldn’t want to surprise even deer drinking from the pond.
Pretty soon walkies will either be real fast or not happen… thankfully the short days don’t last all that long. I need the exercise, too, lol! I used my new Nano to count steps… Dog walking is averaging 960 steps, and about 40 calories burned, lol! I don’t rein Sadie in like Ron does, tho…. if she pulls, I go faster. Ron stops her and tells her to quit pulling like a plow horse. Me, I want the exercise…. I’d go around again if the dogs would mind as well first time, but they don’t… and we are running out of daylight.
Oh, and the fun with terriers… I almost forgot. Twice this week Rita has gone out behind the house on her morning potty outing when Ron gets home and she’s found something dead to roll in. She came in the first time and had eaten some of it, burped right at us… ewwww. And then I noticed her smell… she got a bath. She hates baths… too bad. So she does it again yesterday, I get home and Ewww dog. Bath time. Two baths in one week… if I say the word she is hiding under the couch. She TRIED to hide last night, but I caught her. I’ve gone out to see if I could find what she’s rolling in to remove it… or rather have Ron remove it… but couldn’t find anything. Ron took Rita out on leash this morning for potty, he wants to avoid the smell, too, lol! Rita wouldn’t potty, just sat at his feet. No treat for sitting there, he can’t stay out all day… and then she was mad at him. I’m not, tho… I’m glad I didn’t come home to stinky dog needing another bath again. :)
One more thing before I get ready for chat time… I don’t know if I mentioned it on this blog or not. My right across the hiway neighbor adopted 2 of our kittens. Her sister lived in the next house over… and was the one that took BuddyMack and then abandoned him, moved away and left him last January. Well, anyhow… the near gal adopted 2 kittens this summer… and her sister was visiting last weekend and took one of the kittens home with her. Stole a kitten from her sisters kids. Well, probably it was her kids that hid it in the car, but still. Grrr. It was the cutest kitten and the one they liked the best. But they still have Cocoa Puff, so that’s okay. Kids will just have to share the one kitten more. Cocoa Puff is more special… he’s an unusual color for a cat.
Time to get ready for chat….
hugs,
Vyx
