"Mommy, I like Whitey"

01.27.10

"Whitey" (as I like to call him) is Maggie's new friend as of today.

This afternoon we went on our walk.  As we headed towards the ponds, Whitey was there to greet us.  Whitey is a white dog but I'm not sure what breed.  He's a little bigger than Maggie with similar length of hair.  There are a few amazing things about him.  He has such pretty white fur.  He's pretty much all white except for a very light tan strip down his back.  So gorgeous!  And he has the most amazing eyes.  They are blue!  So pretty to look at.

So we've met Whitey before but he's always just run off after he comes up and sniffs Maggie.  He escapes from his home occasionally.  I've seen him on a chain in the backyard of his house during the warmer months of the year.  Maybe he just likes to run around for a while.  (I'm sure his owner doesn't like it.)  But he seems like a good dog (other than escaping).

Instead of running off today, he decided to kind of follow us on our walk around the big pond.  Since he was kind of sticking around, I wanted to get a picture of him.  While I was getting the camera out Maggie was whining at Whitey because she wanted him to come back and play with her.  (Maybe that's why he stuck around longer.)  I was mad when I discovered my batteries were completely dead!  So we contiued on with the walk.  Whitey eventually came back to us when we were halfway around the pond to play with Maggie a little more.

The two of them had fun.  They would sprint with each other, except Maggie couldn't go too far since she was still attached to the leash!  She got in her playful stance to get him to come back to her.  I could tell she just wanted to run to her heart's content with him.  It was so cute.  Then when Whitey ran on ahead of us, Maggie was upset.  We walked fast the rest of the way though.

Then that was pretty much it.  It was great to watch Maggie have such a good time, even if it was short-lived.  She seems more tired tonight.  I think I know why!

Since I didn't get a picture of Whitey today (uhhh!), I'll show you another one I took today.  One of Maggie pouting.  She's been sad this week because her daddy is out of town all week long.  So she's been stuck with me.  It's not the worst thing in the world, but she just adores Chris and looks forward to the time she gets with him every night.

I miss you dad!

01.16.10

The first dog party

Tonight our small group decided to have a party at John and Stacie's to watch the Purdue and Colts' games.  We also decided we would include the dogs too (since our plans to do that for New Year's got spoiled)!  So we had much craziness with four dogs in one room!  Those in attendance (dogs) were our Maggie, the 1 year old bassett hound Harvey, the 8 month old great dane Gus, and the eight year old greyhound Patti. 

Maggie had the chance to play for an hour with Harvey before the others came and Harvey wore her out.  Harvey kept jumping up at her and following her around when she tried to walk away.  When Maggie and Harvey would jump up at each other, Harvey would just collapse because of his smaller size.  But he just kept trying! 

Then Gus (affectionately called "the horse" now) and Patti came.  Patti did her own thing like she usually does and laid down in the corner. (I didn't blame her.)  The other three played for a while.  Eventually Maggie decided it was time to lay down by herself and try to get away from the craziness.  Harvey kept trying to instigate things with Gus.  That was hilarious since little Harvey was trying to beat up on big Gus.  He did have some luck in running around the couch, especially when he changed direction.  (His size was an advantage then.)  It looked really funny because Harvey was running fast and Gus just looked like he was walking!

We tried to separate all of them for a while and then Harvey, Gus, and Maggie started playing again.  (I think Maggie got a second wind.)  One way John and Stacie kept Gus still was using a remote control car (because Harvey is scared of it) or just man-handling him :)

Throughout the whole night you could tell Harvey was tired and needed to rest, but he kept fighting it.  He would lay down for a sec and then get right back up to run around and play.  That dog has some stamina and fight in him.  He knew he was fighting a losing battle with 2 bigger dogs, but that didn't matter.  He was getting some major playtime and he wasn't going to waste a minute!

Oh, I almost forgot!  Maggie had another cat chase tonight.  (She just had another with my sister's cat at Christmas when she was hyped up on a whole carton of chocolate-covered coffee beans!)  One of the doors got opened to where one of the cats was and leave it to Maggie to find the cat!  Harvey, Maggie, and Max the cat scampered around until Max jumped up on top of the kitchen cabinets to escape what could've been disaster.  He stayed there the whole night hiding from the dogs.  Poor guy!

Before we knew it the Colts had won and it was time to leave.  It was definitely a memorable night and I think all the dogs had a great time.  They wore us adults out just watching them continually running around and playing!

Here's three of the dogs in one shot (without Patti).  I'll have to post some more pics soon!