Our Dog Maggie - #3

Pets, you have to love them but there are times......

In the middle of the night last night, our dog Maggie, that is her on the right, decided that several rooms in the house would be her new poop spots. In her defense, she probably had eaten something during the day that didn't agree with her. I am guessing it was probably some dead - or even live - rodent. I say this because she is 4 years old and isn't prone to pooping in the house unless she is sick.

Of course sick or not makes no difference to me at 5:00am when I get up to make my bladder flatter and in the dark find one of her piles. Nice, real nice. Then my wife wakes up as she hears me running the bath water and can't figure out why I would be taking a bath at 5:00. So she gets up and we have a clean up party. Great way to start your Saturday morning.

That wasn't the end of the story though. Later in the day we went to the golf show in Novi with some friends and upon returning home with those friends, was greeted by a foul smell and a rather unsightly pile right smack dab in the middle of the living room carpet.

All in all, I think it may be time to replace our carpeting!!! I am thinking of replacing it with concrete.

Our Crazy Dog - #1

Maggie is her name and she is an English Pointer. We adopter her, or rather she adopted us. We were looking for a dog and went to look at a dog we had found at a pet rescue center for Pointers. A place called Pointers from Oz. As I said, we went there to look at one dog and this little goofball came in and climbed on our laps and almost literally said take me!!!! So, we did. This video is of her chasing this cool toy that emits a really strange noise that drives Maggie nuts.

Great Story

Sue and I were out shopping tonight and heard a great story at the Art Van near our house. Apparently there were two stray beagles that were out in the cold and found their way to the front door of the Art Van furniture store. This particular Art Van has two sets of automatic doors that are motion activated. The two young beagles walked past the front of the store and the first set of doors opened so they walked into the entryway. Once inside, the second set of doors opened and they meandered into the store and jumped up on the first comfortable sofa they found and promptly curled up and fell asleep.

It took several customers coming in before someone mentioned to a salesperson that the two dogs were so cute. Of course this alarmed the salesperson and they immediately went to look at the two dogs. Both dogs were filthy, cold and hungry. They were also both lucky to be alive as the Art Van is on a major 4 lane highway.

The Staff at Art Van called the Humane Society who came and relieved them of the two dogs. Of course that is not the end of the story. As you have read here, we recently lost our dog who was part beagle and as you may be guessing, we are going to call and ascertain the disposition of the two dogs and may bring one home if they are still available.

Stay tuned for future pet updates.

On another note, I spend a lot of time in my car and as a result have become a big fan of books on tape/CD. Mostly I check them out of our local library but frequently I will get them for presents at birthdays and Christmas. Does any one know of a place or organization where I can swap tapes/CDs? Needless to say, I am beginning to build up a small library. If I can't find a swap source, I will likely donate them to our library or senior center or some other organization that could put them to good use but I thought I would at least throw the question out here.

Have a great New Year everyone!!!!!