Thinking outside dog.
Meet Dinner
17 Mar 2008 Author: dingo In: Uncategorized
Meet Dinner, she is a canadian goose who is in love with a wheelbarrow. She came with the property of some friends and for some reason took to the wheelbarrow. If you go near it she’ll start honking away and if you move it she’ll follow behind very disturbed. They leave the wheelbarrow on the side so it won’t hurt her if it blows over in the wind. Dinner also likes to watch TV, she loves America’s Funniest Home Videos, and sleeps in the bathtub when it gets really cold outside.
We worked on 50 ft recall today, and scherzo loved it. She came and sat nicely every-time, the only trouble was that we were calling her between us and she kept wanting to run back before we’d called. So we had to hold her, which built up her drive even more. We ended with some playing and headed inside where Scherzo went to work on the deer bone she had found out by the river and carried all the way back to the cabin.
The door to the shop is broken and has no handle. We were inside working today with the dogs crowded around the door wishing they could come in. Well apparently Scherzo has not forgotten a trick we taught her as a puppy: how to open doors. We taught her by saying “get UP door”, so that she would jump up and hit the door open, and then changed it to “get the door”.
No Camera?
12 Mar 2008 Author: Sarroar In: Day-to-Day
We decided to go walk by the jefferson river today, and mac asked me before we left, “are you sure you don’t want to bring your camera?” “Naw,” I said.
It was the best of days, it was the worst of days. Scherzo got kicked in the head by a mule, fell through the ice, and got stung in the mouth by a bee all in one day.
We saw the light go on in her head, the idea forming, and then ziiing. she was gone running across the field to say hi to Mac’s mom and randy and oh hey, there are giant grumpy mules out there too. usually scherzo is calm until she looks up at the horse’s big eyes and head looking down at her, at which point she takes a jump to full boar excitement. Read the rest of this entry »
There’s a monsterous cave a few miles down the highway from my mom’s property which Sarah has never seen so we decided to check it out. Read the rest of this entry »
Today we built Scarlet a rustic dog agility course. Scarlet Cinder is a red heeler and a good friend of Scherzo’s. I’ve seen her jump 4 feet in the air, bouncing straight up and down because she wanted out of her kennel.
home schmeat home
8 Mar 2008 Author: Mackenzie In: Day-to-DayMy mom’s property is a weird place for me. It’s wrapped up in long resentments of the worst kind of work, work you’re forced into with no reproach, of laying barbwire fence, bucking hay bales until my throat nearly closed up from my allergies, of fights at family gatherings and the last saddest days with my old blind dog Connor. It’s a deep well for me out here.
We hit the library in Missoula and grabbed five books all claiming to be the essential guide to camping in Montana. All of them but one were crap. With no where to camp we decided to get the hell out of Missoula and go visit my mom in Willow Creek. We stopped on the way to explore The Valley of the Moon hike, which isn’t so much of a hike as a loop of “informative kiosks” on a paved 1/4 mile path.
