How is it that sometimes the simplest things are what brings the most pleasure?
After a nice walk yesterday morning, Sampson spent the afternoon just enjoying a spring afternoon.
Our neighbor was outside working in his yard and apparently Sampson felt Kevin needed company.
I have to tell you, some of my favorite pictures of Sampson are of him outside, just enjoying life as we all should.
Enjoy what’s left of your weekend and make the best of your week!
A few weeks back I wrote a post about responsibility, if you missed it you can read it here.
My intention this morning was a half hour morning walk and then another half hour, forty-five minute walk this afternoon.
Alas the best laid plans……
We were joined this morning by Brady and his mom, and then shortly after we were joined by three more dogs.
Just dogs. No person.
The dogs were the ones I wrote about in this earlier post. But their human was nowhere to be found. I’m pretty sure I heard her whistle a couple of times, but she never called for the dogs, and she never showed her face.
There are two entrances to the park. We noticed a vehicle at one entrance, which is the one Brady and his mom use. The next time we approached the area, there was no vehicle. But we still had two extra dogs.
Both dogs had collars on, but there weren’t any tags to identify them.
I called them:
White Dog
And
Brown Dog
At first I couldn’t place the dogs, but eventually I remembered the woman and how the two brown dogs (not to be mistaken for the 2Brown Dawgs) had taken off on her the last time. I thought maybe she had parked at the entrance I use, so I told my friend I would try to take the dogs with me and see if she was waiting.
She wasn’t.
I didn’t know what to do. I text my friend and asked her if any vehicles were up her way.
There weren’t.
I then asked her for Brenda’s number so I could call and let them know I had two of the dogs, but Brenda didn’t answer.
The white dog left, but the little brown dog stayed near me and took little bits of kibble from me. I tried to get him into the car so I could at least bring him home and put him in the fenced yard, but he wouldn’t do it.
I put Sampson and Delilah in the car and started walking back up the hill, hoping I could get the dogs to follow me, but the brown dog wandered off too.
Since they didn’t answer to white dog and brown dog, there wasn’t too much I could do.
So as much as I hated it, I got in my car and left.
About an hour and forty-five minutes later my friend text me and said they WERE Brenda’s friend’s dogs and they were at home, safe and sound.
I’m not kidding when I say this woman LEFT the area, without her dogs and was gone a minimum of an hour. Not to mention her dogs have no form of identification on them!
Sampson and Delilah ALWAYS have a tag with their name, my name and my cell phone number on it, even in the house.
Because you just never know!
When we were in the process of trying to sell our old house, during one of the showings the prospective buyer let Sampson out. OUT. Not in the yard where it was fenced, no out in the front which was very close to the busy street.
Luckily for us our neighbor saw him just walking around and was kind enough to get him and put him inside the fence. Thank god we didn’t have Delilah at the time because that would have been a whole different story!
If our neighbor hadn’t seen him, at least he would have had a tag with a phone number to call.
What about your dog, does your dog have tags? What kind? Do they wear one all the time, or only when you are out?
Oh and Happy St. Paddy’s day, we had a yummy corned beef dinner!!
For those new to the blog, my follow-up Friday provides me with an opportunity to update or revise a post from the previous week.
You know sometimes you post about something and you need an update but it doesn’t warrant a whole blog. Or sometimes someone made a comment that really resonated with you. Yup, Follow-Up Friday baby! 
Well the ambulance came and took the poor drunk visitor away. Sara says he just came in, said he needed an ambulance and he liked dogs better than he liked humans. Who would have thought? LOL
She had to put two dogs in the very back because they were being very protective about Sara and Dianne. Tater who I believe is a pit bull mix and one crazy chocolate lab who was trying to go over the counter. :-0
Sara said when he reached in his jacket for the bottle she almost wet herself at first, good thing for Kegel exercises. 🙂
I have to admit I was a bit nervous about puppies, since the rescue really stresses using bleach to help prevent the spread of Parvo. I mixed up three bottles full of a bleach solution and as soon as the puppies left, I threw all the towels in one crate and dumped two bottles of bleach in with them.
I probably should have waited until we got home when I could have taken the crate out of the car and sat it in the driveway. Instead we had to drive the 55 minutes home with the windows down to keep from asphyxiating ourselves. Good thing it was a nice day. 😉
Lesson learned.
Let’s face it, we dog people are passionate about our fur babies. We all have ideas on the right way to train a dog and the right way to feed a dog. None of us likes to hear anything we consider as criticism regarding our babies.
I know first hand, Christine who used to own First Command (before it became The Mellow Mutt) once said to me that I might like to consider putting Sampson on low-calorie kibble. I was never a big fan of hers nor she mine and therefore when she told me that I looked her dead in the eye and said, “I don’t want to.”
As it turns out, I did put him on a low-calorie kibble, and then moved him to raw. We like raw, but not everyone does nor is it inexpensive and in this economy, sometimes we need to make hard decisions.
The Murphy situation is a tough one, and I think if I ever get the opportunity to speak with one of her parents I will, in the meantime the best we all can do is try to educate people.
Talk about it, you never know who might be listening!
Book update: My book has 19,477 words.
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