Addiction stinks...
So my
docile, predictable, laid-back dog is torturing me.
Now that
we are busy with harvest, and the weather is punishingly hot, she has developed
a new hobby.
Said hobby
shows blatant disregard for the Number 1 Rule for Daisie Lee Duke Honcoop:
DON’T DIE.
We have
discovered that she has been CROSSING THE ROAD into Farmer Frank’s menagerie
pasture. Farmer Frank has a goat, a burro, a Longhorn steer, 3 cows, 1 calf, 2
horses, an unknown number of chickens and a couple of dogs.
The
menagerie leaves behind them (literally) a plethora of piles – a variety of
manures, afterbirth, and other forms of rot.
Eeeeewwwww…
And Daisie
has become an addict…a rot addict.
With blatant
disregard for her safety, she delights in the various piles…And by delight, I
mean she rolls in them…and ingests them…
So now,
the dog that we trusted to hang out on our 60 acres; to go for a stroll, and
return to lounge on her outside bed…now this dog has repeatedly and rapidly
disappeared only to return panting, smiling and covered with foul smelling
crap. She’s found her bliss…
And it is
the foulest of the foul, I tell you…
Since
Saturday, she has had 5 baths…mostly successful. However, yesterday we scrubbed
and scrubbed but couldn’t defeat the noxious scents emanating from her.
Finally, we lifted her ears and found that she had packed one full
of…stuff…Have you ever looked in a dog’s ear and seen how many pockets and
wrinkles are in there?
GOOD!
NESS! It was…daunting. {gag and gag again!}
An
intervention is planned for today.
Yesterday,
she was on probation – some outside privileges – but today she has moved to
restriction. And that is such a pain! It’s been so nice to have her hang around
wherever we are working in the yard, or out in the field. Now The Sneak will
have to be kenneled; and she will hate it, and so will I. She’s gonna work me
over with pathetic looks and drooping eyes, and I will be worrying about her
mental state…
But the
alternative will be to worry about her death, or her smelling LIKE death – and
more of those blasted baths that she hates too…
It’s going
to be a hard fight to defeat her addiction…There it is, Candy Land, right
across The Highway of Death…within sniffing distance.
Oh,
Daisie…just say no…
Comments
funny, we've been torturing our cat the last week because of a bird family in our wood shed whose babies got kicked out of the nest but have not yet started to really fly. They have been living in the woodpile and I fear for their life as my great hunter-kitty catches plenty. So we have had to keep him in the house until the birds fly away. Not an easy task as my cat is an indoor-outdoor come and go as you please sort of cat. I can't wait for those birds to fly!