Starskey my boy.......I should say my man. You are almost 5 now and you have been away from us for almost 4 years now. It seems like an eternity and although life goes on - We still miss you terribly and still hold out hope that you will be identified and returned to us!
We have had a couple small snows but nothing big yet. Bucky loves to run in the snow and Pele does a pretty good job of keeping up but he gets sidetracked easily. His newest project is the rock pile and all the places he can get in to or make bigger. I know you are too big to be in there but I find myself wondering if you are close and trying to come home but these guys don't know you and won't let you.
They don't mean to be rude! You still have many things here with your scent on them....if it lasts that long. Your summer house and it's pad, parts of the football, your kennel and pillows and that big bone collection Missy left for you and that you added to! This is still your home....you just have fellows to share it with now....ones that you will like and have fun with......if we can just get you all together.
You have no idea how much you have changed our lives. You, the first animal allowed in the house and the first pet to touch Jeff's heart as you did. Since you have been gone we rescued Ike and shared our love, and what you gave to us, with him for as long as God would let us. Buck is still here and we are blessed that he was rescued and then given to us to care for. He is a good boy and very well behaved.
Because you helped us learn to trust and love more then we ever had before, Buck got to come in the house right away. He spent a long time sleeping on the floor at our feet before he was allowed in the housefurniture. Now he takes turns with Dad as to whether he is on the couch or next to me in the recliner. That never would have been possible if you had not broken through all the barriers and beliefs he held about dogs in the house!
Pele was always in Robin's house after she rescued him as a baby.....but after a year with Pele, Sid and Pokey she felt over-dogged so she brought him to us. She knew he would be loved and she hoped he would help us stop missing you so much. Well that part didn't work....we miss you as much as we ever did but we do love the little sinker and he loves us and his packmate Buck. He isn't too sure about the house cats though but he has a good feline friend in the shop that pesters him and snuggles him too!
On Thanksgiving I gave thanks for all my family and friends and for all the blessings that God has provided me in my life. You were one of thoseblessings you know. You came in to our lives for a reason. I am not sure what that was unless it was to open our hearts and home to other animals in need. You did that well. I just hope the Lord sees fit to allow you to come back to us.
You'd fit right in between Buck and Pele and the three of of you could explore the rock pile and both burn piles together. Buck likes to chase the deer and squirrels. Pele is a mouser and a good rabbit hunter. As part Border Collie you would love the herding they try to do. Maybe you can teach them something!
We love you and miss you! Tell someone you need to get back home! Until next time my love. Stay safe, stay warm and be smart!
Starskey
At Freedom Park summer 2010
Thursday, December 4, 2014
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Patricia B.
Patricia....
I can't seem to log in to you as a follower of my blog for Starskey. I am getting a new computer and wondered if you had saved all our communications about all my furry family....and the feathered ones too. If so .....please email them to me. Use mctrophy@wcta....you know the rest.
I may look in to having them put together and published......At least for family. Thanks!
Later...............Lee
I can't seem to log in to you as a follower of my blog for Starskey. I am getting a new computer and wondered if you had saved all our communications about all my furry family....and the feathered ones too. If so .....please email them to me. Use mctrophy@wcta....you know the rest.
I may look in to having them put together and published......At least for family. Thanks!
Later...............Lee
Another First Snow
Hi there Starskey!
The first snow came on Dec. 10 again....but was just a little one. It has gotten added to each day since. It is now deep enough that Pele is more then belly deep. It does remind me of the day that you disappeared so I can't help but think about you. I am sad that you are gone but so very grateful that you were here!
Pele snuck out with Buck yesterday and took off. It scared me but he had his blaze orange coat on and he was with big brother Buck so I knew he wouldn't get lost.....but he was naughty to sneak out like that. I think they plan it together too.....Pele tucks himself under Buck's belly so when the door opens we can't see him and out they both go....stinkers anyway! I wish you could be here with them!
They stay around home but they have to run through every bramble and thistle they can find....and you know how many we have! Buck's fur is like yours so he can roll in the grass or snow and get most of them out - but Pele is kind of like Missy. Not as much hair but it is long so he can get parts of his body connected to each other in weird ways with the brambles. Buck will help him get rid of some of them but I usually have a lot of work to do too.....I think he likes it so gets them on purpose. He gets special attention from both of us. He is not a dumb dog that's for sure....just a naughty one.
There is another example of something you brought to us.....I grew up with lots of pets in the house but Jeff didn't. He had a special furry friend when he was a kid but as he grew up he just had the livestock animals and they were for selling or eating. That place in his heart where his special friend lived never had the chance to grow.....he wouldn't let it.....until you came to us. You opened up that place in his heart again and helped it to grow! Thank you for that!!! You changed him and changed our lives forever!!
Buck is out helping (?) Jeff put the chains on the tractor in case it snows some more. Pele is laying on the couch beside me having a nap. That is a good feeling....to have a warm pup beside me again! He doesn't like the porch swing...so that is still "our" place. You wouldn't recognize your old play area. This summer we put a cement slab in place of the palettes we used to use as a deck. Then we added a brick patio on to that. Not all of your playground is gone.....just part of it. Your favorite grass wrestling place with Dufus is still there.
The little maple tree we planted outside the back door has grown big. It shades the patio and grass really nice....but there are still sunny spots here and there. Do you remember the campfires we had at the park. You used to lay beside them and enjoy the warmth with us. We made a place for campfires by the brick patio so we can sit around a fire and enjoy our old memories and make some new ones. Missy and Jack would have enjoyed that.....the only fires we used to have with them were when we needed to burn the brush pile. I would sit in the grass and they would sit on each side of me and we would watch the fire together. That didn't happen as often as our campfires did.
The sun just came out. It makes it bright outside as it bounces off the snow. I cut up a lot of wood yesterday from the maples we took down beside the garage last month. I need to go stack it and clean up the brush to go to the brush pile. By next summer it will be dry enough to burn with our oak in the campfire. It would be really great if you were here to share the fire with us!
Buck has come in to warm up so now I have both boys inside. They are laying on their pillow in front of the fire together. I still miss you and wish you were here to complete this day. I love you Starskey.....I always will. I just wish you were here! My heart still misses you........This blog and my posts to you help me feel a bit better because I can't miss you any less....no matter how life goes on.
Jeff used to think this kept me stuck in the bad depression I got in to after you disappeared. I think he has learned that it really helps me to get my thoughts and my pain expressed. I should have started it earlier then I did and maybe I wouldn't have gone so far down that dark path in the firsts place. I know it doesn't bring you back to us.....but it brings back good memories and helps we deal with the ones that hurt. Technology has it's advantages.....I just wish it had done more to find you and help you to get back home. I love you. I miss you. I pray for you. Maybe someday.......
The first snow came on Dec. 10 again....but was just a little one. It has gotten added to each day since. It is now deep enough that Pele is more then belly deep. It does remind me of the day that you disappeared so I can't help but think about you. I am sad that you are gone but so very grateful that you were here!
Pele snuck out with Buck yesterday and took off. It scared me but he had his blaze orange coat on and he was with big brother Buck so I knew he wouldn't get lost.....but he was naughty to sneak out like that. I think they plan it together too.....Pele tucks himself under Buck's belly so when the door opens we can't see him and out they both go....stinkers anyway! I wish you could be here with them!
They stay around home but they have to run through every bramble and thistle they can find....and you know how many we have! Buck's fur is like yours so he can roll in the grass or snow and get most of them out - but Pele is kind of like Missy. Not as much hair but it is long so he can get parts of his body connected to each other in weird ways with the brambles. Buck will help him get rid of some of them but I usually have a lot of work to do too.....I think he likes it so gets them on purpose. He gets special attention from both of us. He is not a dumb dog that's for sure....just a naughty one.
There is another example of something you brought to us.....I grew up with lots of pets in the house but Jeff didn't. He had a special furry friend when he was a kid but as he grew up he just had the livestock animals and they were for selling or eating. That place in his heart where his special friend lived never had the chance to grow.....he wouldn't let it.....until you came to us. You opened up that place in his heart again and helped it to grow! Thank you for that!!! You changed him and changed our lives forever!!
Buck is out helping (?) Jeff put the chains on the tractor in case it snows some more. Pele is laying on the couch beside me having a nap. That is a good feeling....to have a warm pup beside me again! He doesn't like the porch swing...so that is still "our" place. You wouldn't recognize your old play area. This summer we put a cement slab in place of the palettes we used to use as a deck. Then we added a brick patio on to that. Not all of your playground is gone.....just part of it. Your favorite grass wrestling place with Dufus is still there.
The little maple tree we planted outside the back door has grown big. It shades the patio and grass really nice....but there are still sunny spots here and there. Do you remember the campfires we had at the park. You used to lay beside them and enjoy the warmth with us. We made a place for campfires by the brick patio so we can sit around a fire and enjoy our old memories and make some new ones. Missy and Jack would have enjoyed that.....the only fires we used to have with them were when we needed to burn the brush pile. I would sit in the grass and they would sit on each side of me and we would watch the fire together. That didn't happen as often as our campfires did.
The sun just came out. It makes it bright outside as it bounces off the snow. I cut up a lot of wood yesterday from the maples we took down beside the garage last month. I need to go stack it and clean up the brush to go to the brush pile. By next summer it will be dry enough to burn with our oak in the campfire. It would be really great if you were here to share the fire with us!
Buck has come in to warm up so now I have both boys inside. They are laying on their pillow in front of the fire together. I still miss you and wish you were here to complete this day. I love you Starskey.....I always will. I just wish you were here! My heart still misses you........This blog and my posts to you help me feel a bit better because I can't miss you any less....no matter how life goes on.
Jeff used to think this kept me stuck in the bad depression I got in to after you disappeared. I think he has learned that it really helps me to get my thoughts and my pain expressed. I should have started it earlier then I did and maybe I wouldn't have gone so far down that dark path in the firsts place. I know it doesn't bring you back to us.....but it brings back good memories and helps we deal with the ones that hurt. Technology has it's advantages.....I just wish it had done more to find you and help you to get back home. I love you. I miss you. I pray for you. Maybe someday.......
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Thanksgiving
Hello Starskey - wherever you are. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day so I am seriously thinking about the things that I am thankful for in my life. You are high on that list. I don't need to repeat the things I have already posted....I wrote them so I didn't have to keep reliving it but can always remember the good times! Life does go on and even love changes but is never forgotten.
You were responsible for opening up hearts......and houses......in a way that I never believed possible. What you left behind was a more open heart and a more willing mind when it came to fur covered family members. We have more now...and some of the same that were here with you. Midnight is still trying to teach the kid how to ring the bell to go out. Buck caught on quick but Pele just refuses to do it.
Both dogs are not only in the house....but on the furniture! Well Pele is anyway. Buck is half way on and half way off. His back feet are braced on the floor with his front feet on the blanket covering part of the couch and his head in my lap......that is Major! You broke down the house barrier in Jeff's mind so you got these guys inside to work their own magic on him. It was Pele first....because he had lived in a house before and knew to behave,,,and he isn't that big anyway. Jeff still objects to Buck being even part way on the couch.....but unless somebody gets down on the floor with him....that is where her has to come for his loving. I don't mind at all - except for the licking part. He feels the need to lick things until they are wet.....pillow, arm of chair, me, whatever. What is it with the licking anyway?
Back to the Thanksgiving part......Thank you for choosing to spend part of your life with! You changed ours for the better.......I can't tell you how much. We have loved all of our pets and cared for them the best we knew how at the time.....you taught us new ways to love and care.
Thank,You for loving me at a time when I wasn't sure I was still lovable. I thought I couldn't do much right but it was enough for you. You loved me with no questions asked or demands made....you just loved me! Thank you for saving all the bones Missy stashed. Ike was grateful and he left them for Pele. Thank you for teaching me the power of simple things like a walk with my dog. Thank you for the wonderful greetings I received even if I just came back out of the shop.....you were always glad to see me. Often I needed that more then I realized.
Thank you for being you! You may be elsewhere right now but I can't look at the porch swing or the plastic summer outdoor shelter without feeling a glow in my heart. You made a permanent home in my heart - and Jeff's too! Wherever you are right now.....I hope you are warm, safe, happy and that you know how much you are loved and valued and cared about!
I do wish you would go to the vet and get your chip discovered. I would be even more thankful to be able to have you back at home with us. You'll love your new brothers......and they will love you!
Thank You Starskey - for coming in to my life and for changing it to the better. I miss you.....
You were responsible for opening up hearts......and houses......in a way that I never believed possible. What you left behind was a more open heart and a more willing mind when it came to fur covered family members. We have more now...and some of the same that were here with you. Midnight is still trying to teach the kid how to ring the bell to go out. Buck caught on quick but Pele just refuses to do it.
Both dogs are not only in the house....but on the furniture! Well Pele is anyway. Buck is half way on and half way off. His back feet are braced on the floor with his front feet on the blanket covering part of the couch and his head in my lap......that is Major! You broke down the house barrier in Jeff's mind so you got these guys inside to work their own magic on him. It was Pele first....because he had lived in a house before and knew to behave,,,and he isn't that big anyway. Jeff still objects to Buck being even part way on the couch.....but unless somebody gets down on the floor with him....that is where her has to come for his loving. I don't mind at all - except for the licking part. He feels the need to lick things until they are wet.....pillow, arm of chair, me, whatever. What is it with the licking anyway?
Back to the Thanksgiving part......Thank you for choosing to spend part of your life with! You changed ours for the better.......I can't tell you how much. We have loved all of our pets and cared for them the best we knew how at the time.....you taught us new ways to love and care.
Thank,You for loving me at a time when I wasn't sure I was still lovable. I thought I couldn't do much right but it was enough for you. You loved me with no questions asked or demands made....you just loved me! Thank you for saving all the bones Missy stashed. Ike was grateful and he left them for Pele. Thank you for teaching me the power of simple things like a walk with my dog. Thank you for the wonderful greetings I received even if I just came back out of the shop.....you were always glad to see me. Often I needed that more then I realized.
Thank you for being you! You may be elsewhere right now but I can't look at the porch swing or the plastic summer outdoor shelter without feeling a glow in my heart. You made a permanent home in my heart - and Jeff's too! Wherever you are right now.....I hope you are warm, safe, happy and that you know how much you are loved and valued and cared about!
I do wish you would go to the vet and get your chip discovered. I would be even more thankful to be able to have you back at home with us. You'll love your new brothers......and they will love you!
Thank You Starskey - for coming in to my life and for changing it to the better. I miss you.....
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
You are loved...
Starskey my boy....just when I think you may have left my mind - my heart kicks in and reminds me otherwise! You will forever be in my heart so therefore in my mind as well.
It is a sunny fall day with leaves all over the ground. It is the kind of day where you would have been running all over the place and enjoying the sounds your feet make in the fallen leaves. It is also cold out so you would come in for snuggles and to warm up before you would ring your bell to go out for another round in the leaves. Pele enjoys such adventures now but his outdoor runs are short. His winter coat is just starting to grow and he is short enough to collect all the burrs....that have to be brushed out before he can come in the house.
Buck is understanding that his days of easy running are limited so he is taking advantage of all the run time he can get. The race track around the pond is his favorite but he has to check out the timber and long grass too. Burrs don't stick to him as bad (shorter hair) so he doesn't have that problem....and he so loves to run! When the snow comes he'll have to create packed snow trails to run on and I bet he makes a lot of them as well as sharing the deer trails.
I sure do miss your communication with your ears. That made understanding what you wanted easier. I just plain miss everything about you! Wherever you are, I pray that you are happy. I also hope you know that you are loved!!!!!
You are welcome to come home any time....in fact we wish you would. Buck and Pele have heard all about you and would love to meet you and have you as their brother. Life has reduced the amount of time I have to continue to search for you so I pray that you are safe and happy and continue to hope that someday your chip will be discovered and you will begin the trip back in to our lives. Be safe my boy! I love you.....
It is a sunny fall day with leaves all over the ground. It is the kind of day where you would have been running all over the place and enjoying the sounds your feet make in the fallen leaves. It is also cold out so you would come in for snuggles and to warm up before you would ring your bell to go out for another round in the leaves. Pele enjoys such adventures now but his outdoor runs are short. His winter coat is just starting to grow and he is short enough to collect all the burrs....that have to be brushed out before he can come in the house.
Buck is understanding that his days of easy running are limited so he is taking advantage of all the run time he can get. The race track around the pond is his favorite but he has to check out the timber and long grass too. Burrs don't stick to him as bad (shorter hair) so he doesn't have that problem....and he so loves to run! When the snow comes he'll have to create packed snow trails to run on and I bet he makes a lot of them as well as sharing the deer trails.
I sure do miss your communication with your ears. That made understanding what you wanted easier. I just plain miss everything about you! Wherever you are, I pray that you are happy. I also hope you know that you are loved!!!!!
You are welcome to come home any time....in fact we wish you would. Buck and Pele have heard all about you and would love to meet you and have you as their brother. Life has reduced the amount of time I have to continue to search for you so I pray that you are safe and happy and continue to hope that someday your chip will be discovered and you will begin the trip back in to our lives. Be safe my boy! I love you.....
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Have you been listening?
Starskey my boy!
I have been thinking of you a lot but I have been so busy that I haven't been able to write to you. I've been talking to you instead. Have you been listening? Have you heard me? I don't know whether to hope you have or not. Hearing me could mean you are at the Rainbow bridge with Ike. If you can hear me any other way I sure do wish that you would come home! I miss you!!!
We had snow on December 10th. It was pretty but it made me sad. All I could think of was that same date in 2010 when you were frolicking in your first snowfall - and it was the last day that we saw you. I have wondered if you went to look for Dufus to play in the snow with you - he was at home you know. No - we've already talked about that. I don't want to go there again.
That snow has melted now. We have gotten a few more little snows but nothing we get excited about. Pele' is a tougher little dude then I thought he might be. He wants to be outside almost as often as Buck does. Pele' has to go on the trolley though because he gets naughty if we let him loose. He dug up all of Randy's flowers around his gazebo last fall. Randy caught him on his wildlife cameras so we have pictures to prove it.
When you come home there will be some new rules. Do you remember the collars that Pockey and Paucha wear at Robin's to keep them inside their invisible fence? Well we have some of those now too. Our invisible fence is different then theirs but it works the same way - you get a correction if you go outside the boundary. Ours won't use wires in the ground (too many critters that might wreck them). Ours uses radio signals. We'll start with one that will give you all 3/4 of an acre of free run area - and we'll add more later so you can still go to the shop and the timber. Yes, they are water proof so you can go swimming too.
Pele' wore one when he lived at Robin's house so he'll remember what it is. Buck came from a house where he had the underground kind too so he'll know what that correction means. The ground got frozen too fast so I couldn't get the boundary flags put in. I didn't think it was fair to make the guys find the boundaries the hard way so until spring we'll stick with the trolley runner and leashes. I also have training collars so if somebody starts doing something they shouldn't be doing. I can tone them - that is all they seem to need if anything at all.
It is about making things safer for you guys. You can still run around the farm, swim in the pond, chase the squirrels and all the other great dog things - and you'll do it in a safe and protected place! Not that our great big yard isn't a safe and protected place - but you went somewhere (on your own or with help) and I don't want to risk that happening again. I have already learned I can't trust Pele' to not visit the neighbors! This will give you more freedom then a regular fence (or a kennel or a leash). We can even take it camping with us!
Oh how we miss you! You transformed our lives. Buck and Pele' are benefiting from many of the lessons you taught us - and most of the things that we discovered together....and Dad and I are able to enjoy them more because of you! God knew what He was doing when He put you in our hearts and let you choose us to love.
Wherever you are now - I hope the people there know how special you are and love you as much as we do. That way I know you are safe! But I still want you back home with us - where you started and where you are missed.
I got more then a little upset today when Pet Link had me update your information (and mine). There was a link to an Animal Hospital site that I had never seen before so I checked it out. I entered your ID chip number and the site said it did not monitor for that.....not monitor for what? For that brand of chip or your number? You are listed on both Pet Link and Home Again - and both of those sites are monitored by them. What's up?
Have you been close but unable to be found because your chip number isn't being looked for or that brand isn't checked for or doesn't show up on scanners? What is the deal here? Do something - crap on the rug or get fleas or something. Get yourself in to a vet office and insist on getting scanned.........your chip may have migrated under your skin but it is still there.
I posted that on the Animal Lovers Linked In group. Maybe somebody there will know what's going on.
I am going to keep writing to you (and keep talking to you when I can't write) because that is what keeps me from going goofy. I also keep writing to you because I hope that someday - someone will read it and know where you are or where to look for you.
By the way - the bones in the yard are new ones and you and Pele' will have to share them - I bet you'll lay side by side and chew on them.....Buck could care less. He is more interested in the deer and turkey and whether he can get a reaction out of them by barking. Sometimes he does and sometimes they just look at him...............
I love you Starskey! We're all waiting for you......
I have been thinking of you a lot but I have been so busy that I haven't been able to write to you. I've been talking to you instead. Have you been listening? Have you heard me? I don't know whether to hope you have or not. Hearing me could mean you are at the Rainbow bridge with Ike. If you can hear me any other way I sure do wish that you would come home! I miss you!!!
We had snow on December 10th. It was pretty but it made me sad. All I could think of was that same date in 2010 when you were frolicking in your first snowfall - and it was the last day that we saw you. I have wondered if you went to look for Dufus to play in the snow with you - he was at home you know. No - we've already talked about that. I don't want to go there again.
That snow has melted now. We have gotten a few more little snows but nothing we get excited about. Pele' is a tougher little dude then I thought he might be. He wants to be outside almost as often as Buck does. Pele' has to go on the trolley though because he gets naughty if we let him loose. He dug up all of Randy's flowers around his gazebo last fall. Randy caught him on his wildlife cameras so we have pictures to prove it.
When you come home there will be some new rules. Do you remember the collars that Pockey and Paucha wear at Robin's to keep them inside their invisible fence? Well we have some of those now too. Our invisible fence is different then theirs but it works the same way - you get a correction if you go outside the boundary. Ours won't use wires in the ground (too many critters that might wreck them). Ours uses radio signals. We'll start with one that will give you all 3/4 of an acre of free run area - and we'll add more later so you can still go to the shop and the timber. Yes, they are water proof so you can go swimming too.
Pele' wore one when he lived at Robin's house so he'll remember what it is. Buck came from a house where he had the underground kind too so he'll know what that correction means. The ground got frozen too fast so I couldn't get the boundary flags put in. I didn't think it was fair to make the guys find the boundaries the hard way so until spring we'll stick with the trolley runner and leashes. I also have training collars so if somebody starts doing something they shouldn't be doing. I can tone them - that is all they seem to need if anything at all.
It is about making things safer for you guys. You can still run around the farm, swim in the pond, chase the squirrels and all the other great dog things - and you'll do it in a safe and protected place! Not that our great big yard isn't a safe and protected place - but you went somewhere (on your own or with help) and I don't want to risk that happening again. I have already learned I can't trust Pele' to not visit the neighbors! This will give you more freedom then a regular fence (or a kennel or a leash). We can even take it camping with us!
Oh how we miss you! You transformed our lives. Buck and Pele' are benefiting from many of the lessons you taught us - and most of the things that we discovered together....and Dad and I are able to enjoy them more because of you! God knew what He was doing when He put you in our hearts and let you choose us to love.
Wherever you are now - I hope the people there know how special you are and love you as much as we do. That way I know you are safe! But I still want you back home with us - where you started and where you are missed.
I got more then a little upset today when Pet Link had me update your information (and mine). There was a link to an Animal Hospital site that I had never seen before so I checked it out. I entered your ID chip number and the site said it did not monitor for that.....not monitor for what? For that brand of chip or your number? You are listed on both Pet Link and Home Again - and both of those sites are monitored by them. What's up?
Have you been close but unable to be found because your chip number isn't being looked for or that brand isn't checked for or doesn't show up on scanners? What is the deal here? Do something - crap on the rug or get fleas or something. Get yourself in to a vet office and insist on getting scanned.........your chip may have migrated under your skin but it is still there.
I posted that on the Animal Lovers Linked In group. Maybe somebody there will know what's going on.
I am going to keep writing to you (and keep talking to you when I can't write) because that is what keeps me from going goofy. I also keep writing to you because I hope that someday - someone will read it and know where you are or where to look for you.
By the way - the bones in the yard are new ones and you and Pele' will have to share them - I bet you'll lay side by side and chew on them.....Buck could care less. He is more interested in the deer and turkey and whether he can get a reaction out of them by barking. Sometimes he does and sometimes they just look at him...............
I love you Starskey! We're all waiting for you......
Saturday, September 1, 2012
Mud - Stinky Pond Mud!
Oh how you would enjoy Pele's adventures if you were here. He, too, has found the pond to be a source of great entertainment and adventure. No, he doesn't go swimming like you and Buck - he just plays around the edges in the mud - yeah - that stinky mud and he is having a ball.....
I have the distinct feeling that you would enjoy participating in his adventures in the mud too - but I think you would swim in the water to wash most of that mud off before you came bounding up to the house. Pele' doesn't do that - he just comes in all his mud covered glory and expects me to let him in the house like that. He hasn't even figured out that a dip in Bucks swimming pool gets most of it off - even though that is where I take him to rinse him off every time he comes home covered in that stinky goop. He is awful..........
I think I would have to be angry with him - if it weren't so funny to watch him leaping in the grass and jumping after all the frogs and dragon flies. The pond is so low from no rain that the exposed dirt around the edges has started to grow grass. That makes getting to the muddy parts so much easier for a smaller guy - but it also frustrates Buck when he wants to get to the water for a swim....and he isn't appreciating all the stinky mud I keep rinsing off Pele' in his swimming pool. I think I'll have to find a wash tub or something for Pele' rinsing.
The grass in the pond dirt isn't real tall but it is tall enough that all we can see is the tip of Pele's tail in it - until he attacks his real (or imaginary) prey. He does that with great energy and enthusiasm, making a huge leap from where he was to where he is going. That is when we can see his whole body above the grass. Once he lands again all we see is the grass quiver and shake then suddenly go still, as a head pops up and looks around to see if anyone saw that.
Last night he actually caught a frog by the hind leg. He didn't kill it. I am not sure if he even hurt it because he carried it a couple feet and then let it go in the water. Do you think he figured that the water was where the frog belonged - instead of in his own private playground. I don't know...... He sure likes the pond edge (where the mud is) and the shorter water grass that now grows in the exposed dirt. He seems to spend a lot of time there.
He hasn't figured out that he can go all the way around the pond yet. The dam scares him because he can hear the water going out the overflow. He plays on the house side of the pond down by the weeping willow tree (great place to play hide and seek) but seems to like the field side the best....that is why we can see him so well while he is playing. Buck waits until Pele' is happily busy in his mud playground so that he can do his BIG RUNS. They are so much more fun and he can go so much faster without the little tag-a-long.
Buck runs at full speed through the pasture, around the pond, through the timber, around the shop, past the house then across the dam, through the other timber and around the pond again - without stopping. That is his favorite route though he sometimes varies and makes a trip in to the corn. He goes in on the north end and comes out on the south end - but the rows go the other way. I hope he isn't knocking down Steve's corn! I don't think he runs in there - I think that is more of a reconnaissance mission to see who else has been around. You know - the deer and the racoons, or maybe just that darn cat.
This all seems to take place in the early evening for both of them. That must be why they are both so willing to go to their kennels at night - they are pooped from their adventures! During the day they nap alot and take short excursions together. They patrol all four corners and all sides of our property - but do not go in the road. The ditch is as close as they get to that and I am not complaining! I'd hate to have to put their training collars back on them and have to remind them to stay away from the road that way. They apparently learned that lesson quickly.
It is going to be another beautiful day outside today. I can get some garden work done and maybe even some yard work. I'll find that old wash tub and fill it full of water to rinse Pele' in and change Buck's pool water so he has clean stuff to lay in. Pele' definately needs a real bath soon because rinsing gets the mud off - but not all of the stink and he is starting to smell really bad. Maybe today.........unless he begins to have too much fun again and rinsing is all I have time for.
Who would have thought that this terrier mix fellow would find such happiness and fun in such simple things - and entertain us in the process? Terriers can be little terrors - but Pele' seems content to catch a rodent from time to time (that must be his day job) and to play in the stinky pond mud to chase ellusive (and some fantacy) creatures along the pond bank. I know I feel safer knowing that he is guarding me from all of the frogs and toads!
Starskey - come home and play with Pele'. Yes - even in the pond mud. Maybe you can teach him to swim to get some of it off. You can race Buck too. I don't think you would slow him down any by tagging along on his BIG RUNS if you go along.
Starskey - We miss you and we're still looking for you!
I have the distinct feeling that you would enjoy participating in his adventures in the mud too - but I think you would swim in the water to wash most of that mud off before you came bounding up to the house. Pele' doesn't do that - he just comes in all his mud covered glory and expects me to let him in the house like that. He hasn't even figured out that a dip in Bucks swimming pool gets most of it off - even though that is where I take him to rinse him off every time he comes home covered in that stinky goop. He is awful..........
I think I would have to be angry with him - if it weren't so funny to watch him leaping in the grass and jumping after all the frogs and dragon flies. The pond is so low from no rain that the exposed dirt around the edges has started to grow grass. That makes getting to the muddy parts so much easier for a smaller guy - but it also frustrates Buck when he wants to get to the water for a swim....and he isn't appreciating all the stinky mud I keep rinsing off Pele' in his swimming pool. I think I'll have to find a wash tub or something for Pele' rinsing.
The grass in the pond dirt isn't real tall but it is tall enough that all we can see is the tip of Pele's tail in it - until he attacks his real (or imaginary) prey. He does that with great energy and enthusiasm, making a huge leap from where he was to where he is going. That is when we can see his whole body above the grass. Once he lands again all we see is the grass quiver and shake then suddenly go still, as a head pops up and looks around to see if anyone saw that.
Last night he actually caught a frog by the hind leg. He didn't kill it. I am not sure if he even hurt it because he carried it a couple feet and then let it go in the water. Do you think he figured that the water was where the frog belonged - instead of in his own private playground. I don't know...... He sure likes the pond edge (where the mud is) and the shorter water grass that now grows in the exposed dirt. He seems to spend a lot of time there.
He hasn't figured out that he can go all the way around the pond yet. The dam scares him because he can hear the water going out the overflow. He plays on the house side of the pond down by the weeping willow tree (great place to play hide and seek) but seems to like the field side the best....that is why we can see him so well while he is playing. Buck waits until Pele' is happily busy in his mud playground so that he can do his BIG RUNS. They are so much more fun and he can go so much faster without the little tag-a-long.
Buck runs at full speed through the pasture, around the pond, through the timber, around the shop, past the house then across the dam, through the other timber and around the pond again - without stopping. That is his favorite route though he sometimes varies and makes a trip in to the corn. He goes in on the north end and comes out on the south end - but the rows go the other way. I hope he isn't knocking down Steve's corn! I don't think he runs in there - I think that is more of a reconnaissance mission to see who else has been around. You know - the deer and the racoons, or maybe just that darn cat.
This all seems to take place in the early evening for both of them. That must be why they are both so willing to go to their kennels at night - they are pooped from their adventures! During the day they nap alot and take short excursions together. They patrol all four corners and all sides of our property - but do not go in the road. The ditch is as close as they get to that and I am not complaining! I'd hate to have to put their training collars back on them and have to remind them to stay away from the road that way. They apparently learned that lesson quickly.
It is going to be another beautiful day outside today. I can get some garden work done and maybe even some yard work. I'll find that old wash tub and fill it full of water to rinse Pele' in and change Buck's pool water so he has clean stuff to lay in. Pele' definately needs a real bath soon because rinsing gets the mud off - but not all of the stink and he is starting to smell really bad. Maybe today.........unless he begins to have too much fun again and rinsing is all I have time for.
Who would have thought that this terrier mix fellow would find such happiness and fun in such simple things - and entertain us in the process? Terriers can be little terrors - but Pele' seems content to catch a rodent from time to time (that must be his day job) and to play in the stinky pond mud to chase ellusive (and some fantacy) creatures along the pond bank. I know I feel safer knowing that he is guarding me from all of the frogs and toads!
Starskey - come home and play with Pele'. Yes - even in the pond mud. Maybe you can teach him to swim to get some of it off. You can race Buck too. I don't think you would slow him down any by tagging along on his BIG RUNS if you go along.
Starskey - We miss you and we're still looking for you!
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