Friday the 13th and dogs

Well it's Friday the 13th...SCARY!

My crazy possum chasing dog has finally lost her mind.

Her name is Happy. She is a 1 year black Lab that someone generously left at the front of the church back in early February. She's going to be a big girl, she's already about 50 pounds. Being a young dog, she is much more active than our dear Brownie (a chocolate Lab) someone so generously put in our yard February '08. (Do you see a pattern in the month of February? Next year, I'm going to be sitting outside with a shot gun!)

Our yard is totally fenced in but Jon was pulling Sam in his wagon today and had let both of the dogs come with him. It was about 5 pm so I warned him there was too much traffic for them to be out. At that moment Happy started chasing one of the cats, Smokey, across the street. There was a truck coming and nothing we could do. I screamed and ran towards the road...the cat made it across safely but the truck hit Happy. Thankfully the truck hit the brakes hard. Happy got thrown up in the air and she went to running back to me as fast as she could, barking furiously. We checked her out and she is fine, she's eating and playing. The only after effect is that she seems to have PTSD! Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. She is barking furiously at every vehicle that comes down the street! What are we going to do? There is no calming her down at this point. We are envisioning a sleepless night!

Here is our pet list...

DOGS

Sweety (inside corgi)

Brownie

Happy

CATS

Buddy (our inside cat)

Joey

Ralph

Bert

Baby Bubba (named in honor of our old Bubba)

Big Tom

Scaredy Cat

Oreo

Tabby

Tiger

Dusty

Bob (really Bobbie a midget cat with no tail)

Squeaker

Smokey

Assorted others who come to eat now and then.

We've had 4 cats die this year. We've lived here for 3 years and not one had been hurt before. Two got ran over,, one was an unkown death and one old guy we had to have put to sleep. It's been sad for the kids (and me too). Even Jon cried fora couple of them.

The cats came with the church. I've worked on getting everyone fixed. Big Tom and Scaredy Cat somehow know when I'm getting ready to take a cat to the snip snip clinic and we don't see them for a couple of days. I've never seen anything like it. It's like they can understand English! They happen to be the proud parents of the yearly kitten litter! I get everyone there shots each year, it's quite a production to say the least. This year thanks to a grant, at PetLuv I got all my animals taken care of for free! That was great since even at a low cost clinic it gets expensive.

So as I'm typing this, the dog is going crazy, I don't know maybe she hit her head...

Tomorrow I'll share some more thoughts on marriage if we get any sleep tonight.