My protector

I have figured out what my sweet pup is barking so fiercely at during the evening hours, a bunny. Yes that ferocious beast with big ears and giant teeth. It was about 8 in the evening and the sky was not even showing signs of evening. When Kai started parking at the front door. This was a different bark, like an intruder was about to enter the house. My husband got up to see what the fuss was about, we have had ding dong ditchers in the past, but that is usually in the cover of darkness. No one had knocked so not someone we knew. My husband was gone for a few minutes, so I asked what the problem was, dun dun dah, a bunny. Kai was itching to chase that thing off our front porch, but we knew if Kai got out then she would chase the bunny forever. So we let her observe it through the door and tried to calm her down about it being okay.

Let's be honest, the bunny is okay in the front yard, but it keeps eating the flowers in my back yard. I do not mind  if it eats the clover, but not my lilies. Anyway, I think that is who Kai is barking at in the evenings when I look out the back door and see nothing. She runs to the fence and I am pretty sure little bunny foo foo is flying through the slats when I let Kai out. What would she do with an intruder? Would the bark be different? Or am I going to have to discern bunny from foe? Good questions, me thinks. Right now we are protected from the evil bunny.

Another new trick

Kai has a new trick that involves doors. I told you about her ability to open the back door to get inside the house. Also, she figured out how to get the garage door open, both are lever systems that cause the door to swing inward. This allows her to jump up on the handle at the same time she pushes with her body. She has escaped out of the garage on several occasions using this system. So now we have to lock the garage door every time we leave, or she will escape as we are pulling into the garage. Well yesterday she figured out how to open the door from the inside of the house. We are not sure how she does it. I only know that my son was off loading stuff from his car and had put her in the house so that we could have the gate open. He heard two clicks, and then saw the dog dart out of the house, out the fence, and up the street. Chase ensues and once again, I am winded from running up hills. Finally, she is corralled and picked up by my son, who has bologna in his hands. One of these days I am not going to be able to catch her and will have to rely on the good graces of others to get her home.

Saaaaad

I came back from substituting to find a sad pup. Even our walk did not make her happy. Well maybe a little happy with the walk. Instead of sitting with me she has curled up into her crate to sleep. I hope she did not eat something bad for her. Maybe she is just tired from being outside all day, it was 75 degrees, but there are lots of cool spots outside. She will probably perk up when my husband comes home.

Spring 2015

Kai, my poor pup has allergies. I thought maybe she had a cold after I picked her up from boarding, but nope as soon as she spent more time indoors the runny eyes and sneezing have stopped. When she has been outside all day, she wakes up the next morning congested. Kai is paralleling me in her allergies. Things have calmed down a bit since the trees are in full flower and my honey bees are grabbing the pollen. I am hoping that when I leave her outside while I am substituting that she will be able to handle being outside with the pollen.

Food Allergies

My pup may have possible food allergies, so I have to wean her off the chicken and beef, and give her lamb and fish food. Yes, my dog is now a guppy. She has had this rash that goes away briefly and then comes back. The vet said lets try modifying her diet. She also has to eat veggie treats, or nylon bones, anything but pigs ears, cow hide, and well anything that dogs tend to eat. Now I just have to convince my husband that he cannot feed her off the table. Maybe this will help. She was so sweet at the vet, I do not know what he did but, he relaxed her so much that she actually laid down on the table. She never does that. He was an older vet, so maybe he is well trained in calming dogs. I will keep you posted.

Spring happiness

Well it is Spring and with that is sunshine, flowers, warmth and baby animals. I am hoping that today that is actually the case, because yesterday the first day of Spring, was met with rain and 37 degrees. By the evening we were up to a whopping 48. Today it is supposed to be in  the 70's, time to get out the shorts and take Kai for longer walks.

Kai is heaven over the weather, it means that she can stay out in the sunshine, instead of being cooped up in the house. Kai does not like anything below 40 degrees. She is like my bees, who only come out when it is 50 degrees. Kai will stick her nose out the door, then turn around and go to her favorite blanket or chair to lie down. It is my new way to judge the temperature and what jacket to wear outside.

Today she did not hesitate to go out, so above 40. She also doesn't want to come in when called. This means I can get some spring cleaning done, when I am not stopping Kai from barking at everything that moves past the house. And it means more potential for escapes as we do yard work. She is fast and I am so tired of running after her. Her freedom outside of the gate produces a crazy pup, who never listens to the word stay.

But for the sunshine warmth, I will be happy, as well as Kai.

Escape number 452......

This week has been utter chaos, so that when my husband said "Do you want to go out to dinner?" I nearly jumped off the ground. We had gone outside, my husband wanted me to see his bees, so we went through the back gate, which I shut behind me and locked. I went to the garage and opened the door, got into the car and apparently while I was doing that, my lovely Kai who never went into the garage when the car was running decided if we were leaving she was leaving. She opened the front door to the garage, which is a lever, and ran out the door. All of this happens without me knowing it. I see the door ajar, jump out of the car, shut the door. My husband gets to the street, where I notice my dog Kai watching the chickens in my neighbors yard. I jump out of the car call Kai, my neighbor tries to grab her and Kai flies up the street and turns right. I am in hot pursuit as is my husband, me on foot, he in the car. I fly up some three sets of stairs as I see Kai go to someones porch. Aha I think, I have her only to find her vanished. She has somehow passed me and is now at the next house. She starts to come  am delighted and then she is off again, flying across hilled yards and jumping to the corner at the end. I cannot jump off three feet off the top of the brick wall, so I have to climb down the steps. By that time Kai has disappeared, I look everywhere, walk across the block up three houses, no sign of Kai. Turn around and she is on the side of the street I just left, apparently having visited someones back yard. WHile I had been screaming her name. I recross the street, where Kai takes off up the ally way. All I can see is every once and awhile is a tail. So I start running to the last place I see her. When I arrive, I notice two things, construction site and the open carport that leads from the backyard to the front yard. I pray she has not gone through because that is the busiest road and the last time Kai was on that road she almost got hit three times. So I do not scream her name but quietly maneuver around the cars parked in the back, and see her inside a fenced off area, with thankfully, only one way out. She is sniffing, and I manage to sneak up on her, grab her, lift her in my arms and walk down a hill that makes me think that I am sliding down my back on the hill, I am sure it must be at a 75 degree angle. My husband is nowhere to be found, as I carefully put one foot in front of the other. Till I get home and as if by magic, my husband turns the corner. I put the dog away in her crate, change my red mud covered boots and jump in the car to go to dinner. Cursing the day I put a cute puppy in the back of my car to love.