AND SO THEY'RE GONE...BUT OTHERS KEEP COMING
QUOTE OF THE DAY: "If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience." Woodrow Wilson
THIS IS: Go Fetch! Food Drive for Homeless Animals Month
I've been noticing on my morning walks lately how many campers have gone back home for the summer. My canine friends have disappeared along with my human ones. The nice couple from Wisconsin left a few weeks ago, and mom and dad's friends from Ottawa left, too. Just about all mom and dad's euchre friends from Larry to Bev and Bruce to Bernice and Don won't be back until next fall either.
Ducky and Chloe, two very pretty shelties left last week...just when we were getting to be good friends. I think I might miss them the most. Chloe is really funny. She barks and barks at me and follows behind me in the dog run. She's so close that sometimes I can even feel her breath on my butt! But the second I turn around to play with her, she runs away. Then, when I continue to walk along, she'll run up behind me again.
Nothing seems to phase Ducky. She prances along, barking from to time, hoping that mom or dad will give her a treat.
Not only are the snowbirds gone, but a lot of the residents have left for cooler summers, too. The houses are closed up and vehicles are no longer in the driveways.
Sometimes it gets lonely here in the summer. Pam and Dan have left on an extended RV camping trip. They are always so happy to see me. I wiggle my butt and wag my tail when I see them because they are just so friendly. I think they like me.
Sally and Mike have left for a vacation, too. Hopefully they'll be back soon. I love seeing them on my morning walk. Sally is really good at petting me.
There are still some brave souls, though, who stay here through the hot summer months. Beauty is one of my favorite pals. Sometimes our moms take us to the dog run together. We chase squirrels up trees and along the fences. It's just so much fun.
Dulce is still here, too. We get along together well, and the last time we met in the dog run we played a little bit.
I saw little Snoopy the other day, and we walked together for a bit. Snoopy is so tiny but not afraid of big dogs at all.
The summer folks are starting to trickle in now...maybe some of them will have a dog I can play with.
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Daisy, we love reading your blog. We live in a subdivision where everyone stays year round. We had a really good walk this morning. We saw our neighbor Chloe. She is a bichon and not quite sure of us but getting better. Then we saw our friend, James, who works at the church out back. The highpoint of our walk is our group of friends (3) who always have cookies for us and tell us how beautiful we are. Then as a real treat we ran into our friend, Lucky. Lucky travels on a big truck with his mistress so is gone, sometimes for weeks. But we would be confused if our friends left for a summer. Heck, we get confused when we don't see them on the weekend walk. These outings are very important aren't they.
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