Did you ever notice that if you blow in a dogs face it goes mad, yet when you take him on a car ride he sticks his head straight out the window.
I'm like on my 15th dog in 20 years, I have at least 3 at a time.
Most were Labs, but when I kids moved out a couple years ago, and I got over 50, and she, my Wife was tired of the Labs. And she was the dog Girl.
It was...a pause in our 24 year old relationship.
I'd take them, The Dogs; in the John Deere Gator, not in the Gater, but they would follow....down into the woods behind the house and let them do some Creek Time. Walk around, smell sticks, and drink water. I've gone thru so many dogs over the years doing this... to see how one teaches the routine, dies, how the next teaches the routine to the next, dies. It's a cycle. Probably about 5 generations......
2 years ago when I broke my wrist, and our kids all moved out.
I asked my wife.....are we ever gonna have any more Dogs? OR is this the last set, and then we die.
About a month later She got me a Little Terrier, Molly......don't look like one, last pick of the litter. The Dog nobody wanted...Smartest Dog I ever knew of all the rest.
Then last spring we rescuded a yellow lab from the pound......certain death. Dukie Dog. Dumb as a Box of Rocks, MALE, of couse.
They were the same size.................but not anymore. They both a year ago sat in the passenger seat of the Gator going to the Creek.
Dukie Dog don't fit in a Chair, any more....
Everyday we have at least 1 Deer in the back 40. And Dukie Dog dutifully finds every one, and goes nuts at the sliding door.
Molly likes to go for a ride in the Car...........and sticks Her head out the window, even when it's below zero.
One tie to the Past...Bitty Bop. A Black Lab Female.
Daughter of Pongo, and Chrisy, Granddaughter to Smokie Waters who was, Grand Daughter of Super Chief, USA Grand Champion, and my Dog. Breeding Smokie Waters got me a Barn.....and she always threw 3 colors; black, brown and yellow without fail. God Bless You Smokie Waters.
None of my dogs are Stupid, cept for Dukie Dog. But he was in prison, condemmed to death at 5 weeks thru no fault of his own.
I did what you would have done.
but
i
miss
my
kids