Five Acres with a View

In June, I wrote about Lody and Mowers. Yesterday, that post received a comment from a woman named Julie who suspects she has one of Lody’s puppies.  The dates are right, since Lody had one litter shortly before she came to live here around six years ago.  Lody went back to her breeder when her elderly owner could no longer care for her.  Her breeder started looking for a home for Lody since Lody didn’t care for being one of a large number of dogs.  I found out about Ch Wild Winds Lody through a friend of the breeder’s, and took her on a week’s trial to make sure she would get along with our other dog, Dudley.  Lody marched in, looked around, and decided she was home, even though Dudley needed a little work.

The little Yorkie at I Do Dog Tricks obeys me much better than my dogs do. And right now there is a mare (Magic) screaming because I took her Best Friend Forever (Sassy) home this morning. I hope she quits by the time I go to bed. Updated 8/2 to add Magic seems to have adjusted to just being turned out with Rags. And it makes feeding time go more easily, since they both get the same amount of horse chow.

I knew Lody, our elderly Smooth Collie, hates lawn mowers, but she still surprised me this afternoon. I was cutting the weeds in the dog run. I leave the dogs inside the house when I do this, but forgot and left open the door to the mudroom which has a dog door leading to the dog run. I saw this tri-color streak and I had barely stopped the lawn mower when Lody attacked it, biting one of the tires. She stopped attacking when I cut off the motor. Lody is usually such a laid-back dog that it made her behavior even more surprising. After I put her back in the house she kept barking until I finished.

I am amazed that two elderly dogs, who are apparently unable to hear their names when I call, are nonetheless able to hear the sound of me using the (manual) can opener.

May 29, 2007 - Click on image for higher resolution version.

Mia and I lost track of each other on the mesa the other day, so I was very happy to see a blob of white at the gate as I started down to get the car so I could search for her. What a smart Dalmatian!

Petsmart has a good press release on canned pet foods that have caused renal failure in some pets. Check the list if you feed canned food.

February 28, 2007 - Click on image for higher resolution version.

February 18, 2007 - Click on image for higher resolution version.

Yesterday was a nice morning for a walk: not too cold for the Dalmatian Mia, not too hot for the Collie Lody, and not too soggy for my sneaker clad feet. This image is unusual because I can rarely capture Mia and Lody in the same shot.

February 09, 2007 - Click on image for higher resolution version.

I dropped some grated cheese on the floor while I was making a quesadilla for lunch. I made sure it was scattered around, and called the dogs in to clean it up. It took them about three minutes to eat all the cheese, and another ten minutes to assure themselves that they hadn’t left any.

Don’t click on The Daily Puppy if you have been thinking that it has been too long since you had a puppy.