My friend, Theresa, has a beautiful Golden Retriever named Lacey.  Lacey, like her predecessor, Rebel, is a very unique dog.  She is playful and has beautiful eyes that look right into your heart.

She and Rebel are unique in that they both liked to ride the lawn mower, the snowmobiles and the three wheeler whenever they got the chance.

You see, Theresa’s husband, Terry had Rebel when Theresa and he met.  They got married and Rebel and Theresa became close.  He loved to ride the mower and three wheeler.  Not on the back, mind you, but right up front, so he could “drive”. Well, Rebel got old and passed on into that big doghouse in the sky. He is laid to rest out back under a pine tree.

So, Terry and Theresa got Lacey a few months after Rebel passed.  She took to the house as if she had been there before.  She did all the same things that Rebel had done with the machinery.  It was if Rebel was talking to her from dog heaven.  It made Theresa so happy that Lacey was so much like Rebel had been.  Here is a picture of Lacey and Theresa.  I miss them both, for they live very far away from me now.

Theresa and Lacey mowing the lawn

My girlfriend Dottie called me today, she was so upset! Her cocker spaniel Teddy had gotten loose and was hit by a car and left by the side of the road. Fortunately someone found Teddy and saw his ID tag with Dottie’s phone number on it. They called Dottie and now Teddy is at the vet’s recovering from his massive injuries. It is touch and go right now. Poor Dottie loves that dog so much! So I’ve got all my fingers and toes crossed for poor Teddy’s recovery.

Dean has the most adorable little Boston Terrier that I’ve ever seen. So when he told me that he and Amy were going to breed her and asked me if I’d like to adopt a puppy from the litter I wasn’t quite sure what to say. Obviously I’d love to have one, but I have my hands full already! I guess the best thing for me to do is to ask more questions, like “what do you mean by adopt – are you offering one for free, or exactly how much money did you want?”

I really don’t know if they’re just trying to sell an unborn litter, or if they want to give me one for free. And in these economic times, I don’t know if I could afford to buy one!

Every once in a while I like to buy a plastic dog toy for my dogs to have something new to play with. It seems like none of the toys last very long. Their favorite toys have a squeaker in them, but the dogs think that killing the squeaker as fast as possible is part of their game with those toys. So, the toys with squeakers don’t last long.

I think someone has dumped an unwanted dog by the road near where we live. I have seen this strange stray dog wandering around the neighborhood for about the past week. I’ve checked with all of my neighbors, and they say they’ve seen it too, but don’t know who it belongs to. I’ve checked the animal shelter for reports of a missing dog, and looked around for “lost” posters, and they have no reports at all of the dog being reported as missing, so I really think that they dog was abandoned. The dog is a very good looking dog, I have to expect that perhaps there were some kind of behavior issues that resulted in it being dumped. I’m going to try to get the dog’s trust and see if I can coax it to come to me at some point so it doesn’t get into trouble. I know one of my neighbors raises chickens and they said if they catch the dog in their chicken yard they will shoot it, and I really don’t want that to happen!