Queen of Moose Trail

No big news, john got on couch to take a quick nap and there went Charlotte. She had quite a quarandry when i went into bedroom to nap, no real contest she hopped down and followed me........I take much longer naps !

Fall has come to Virginia

The true sportsman dogs (not sissy dogs) are ready.

Dash Log... Fishin aint been too good lately. I might be in for a long dry-spell.

At this time of the year Dixie turns her attention to Virginia's whitetail.

Dixie Log...Nothing says fall like and evening chase that takes you off the trail (as any good chase does), through the car-littered yard of some unsuspecting trailer hermit. Sometimes, on a good day you can get real lucky and pick up a cat as you launch yourself off the pallet porch. p.s.... for some reason momma don't like dear chasin the way I do.

Uh-oh.

oh! look at those claws!! she's chewing on a bone I got that said 'long lasting, great replacement for rawhide!'-- she had knawed down the entire 8" bone in less than five minutes. Look at that determination! Not even a camera flash right in the eyes could slow her down!

So, I've gathered some proof that I am, legitimately a 'dawg-gone-crazy' person.
Doggy food.

People food.

Yeah.
It's like that.

The "Queen"

We have a new toy for the "Queen". It is a KONG. Raquel told us about it so we just had to get it
for "Her Highness". She is beginng to play with it a little. Something to do with no food there. When she cant get the treat out she comes to Shirley as if to say " Hey, I can't get the goodies out what is going on here! Last night she came to Shirley and took her to the KONG which was empty, then she took Shirley to the treat dish to put something into the KONG. She is the Darth Vaderess of the neighborhood. With few exceptions, dogs that bark or act threatening are on her black list. She is a good companion for us and does like people without exception. She is our security system. We have no worries about break-ins or "burgerlers." If it were not for the many walks every day we would probably be less healthy...and we cannot complain about our health-or anything else for that matter. Life is pretty good here in the Virginia mountains.

Bye for now..............JHB/SAB

Minky sure is a big piece 'a fur.

Oh my goodness! Look at that Mink! She's HUGE! I feel like I need to go home and feed my pup right now!

Well... let see. Names-- I really like Nash [she gnashes her teeth when she's excited-- kinda scary looking]; but its dangerously close to Dash. How do we feel about that?

I also like Birdie [she rolls on her back and looks like a dead plucked chicken for about 12 hours a day]

I'm going to look up some old movie starlet names-- maybe I'll find something I like there...

She is a very spoiled girl -- I have some photo evidence that I'll post later.

I've been really bad about posting mostly because since I have moved, I haven't been able to access any wireless networks in the neighborhood. Boo hoo! No TV or Interweb!! :[

Welcome To The Queen

Yea, Grampy did it, we finally got Minka's picture up all to see.
This picture implies that she is the queen, I'm gonna let her have the title, otherwise I would have to accept the fact that she's a DOG ! we don't say those words to her is this house...... Now all we're waiting for is Raquel to give us the new Maddy name.... Let's go girls, Andy I still haven''t seen any pics of Steve's dogs, they must be pretty ugly huh! See ya in the funny pages..........

Hogan the Hunter

Hogan's hunt is over for now. John came home last night from hunting expedition to wash clothes, take a good shower and sleep in own bed, I liked that part. He headed back up this morning to stay till Sunday. He let Hogan stay home, the forecast is for rain, which apparently "gets the deer moving". John was extremely impressed with Hogan, he stayed pretty close to him as they were walking. Hogan likes to flush quail out of brush, in doing so he flushed a few does out. No bucks though, but Hogan did everything that was asked of him, chased some deer out of camp, came when called, and is quiet when walking in forest. John said that he was very amused by the chipmunks, watched them but couldn't figure out why they were running up trees. He (Hogan) has a very cute way of tipping his head to the side in time of confusion. So he done good and got to sleep it off on front porch all day. He and D.W. didn't do much chasing and playing today.

On a different note, I have been trying to get a little black and white terrier mix adopted for our friend Robert ( he has MS) the dog is in Fresno at a rescue group. They are trying to get him neutered, the first time they took him in he had kennel cough so they put him on antibiotics, I got an email update tonite from the gal, last week when they took him in he had a fever, they think he might have distemper now, so he's been at the vet's all week, she is hoping he can come home tomorrow. It will still be a few weeks till they can neuter him. Poor little guy, he really is cute. I hope I don't have to tell Robert his puppy dog died. That would be a real bummer. I think that distemper is pretty treatable now, so keep your fingers crossed, he really is a cutie ( the puppy, not Robert, well he's kinda cute too). Anyway that's my doggie update for now. How come nobody else is doodling........ Raquel we need a update on Maddy, Andy are your dogs no longer cute or funny. IS ANYBODY OUT THERE.......................Love Ya

Here Boy, Come on Boy, Oh **** That's Not My Dog

No this is NOT my new dog, wed night I heard coyotes most of the night, also neighbors dog barking all night. I left home about 10 am yesterday morning , as I was driving down our dirt road, I came across this fella and a larger one, jogging across road towards our house. I couldn't believe he stood there long enough for me to grab my camera. In the 18 years we have lived here, it's just been in the last year that we hear coyotes, we hear them a couple times a month. At first it was kinda cool, but it's hard to sleep when they are reved up, very creepy.
So, Hogan got to go camping ! we put sheets and towels down in the truck and johns back seat windows go down all the way, and he has a back window. We also fixed it so that he has limited space to move around in. Hopefully this will keep him from getting sick too many times. He will have lots of fun once he gets there...........Good Luck John, see ya next week.............

To Raleigh we go!

I'm going to Raleigh this weekend for a friend's wedding and pup is coming along. She has a really cool crate, but she's not too sure about it. She will, however, gladly go in after a few pieces of bacon. I'm going to try tonight to get her in there for an hour or so while I'm doing stuff around the house. So far she has never whined, barked, or made a fuss when I leave her in the kitchen or bathroom-- so this shouldn't be so bad. Its so nice that she doesn't bark often [I've heard three single barks so far]-- she is pretty easy to keep under wraps.

Whew... I'm glad she doesn't get sick in the car-- she's going to need to be an on-the-move sort of pup if she's going to be with me. I'm like a gypsy...except I have lots of stuff and I take showers.

I'm fairly sure she wouldn't pass the come-when-I-call-her test. There's just way more cool stuff out there in the wild then at the apartment. When she did get away though, she didn't run fast, more of a celebratory trot. I guess she needs to start an obedience class in the next few weeks.

When she gets excited, she chomps her teeth together really loudly [kind of intimidating if you don't know her] she won't nip at people, she just likes to make 'chomp' noises-- I'm starting to think her name should have something to do with that.

She hasn't had any neckbones yet, but she's getting very good at eating a chicken quarter that hasn't been cut up at all. It takes a few minutes... but she gets it all down.

Man-- I wanna go to the river!

Morning At The River

Yea Whatsername ! for this you reward her with neck bones....... seems rather harsh....( Ha Ha) Are you working on a name yet ? has she been back in the car yet ? does she get car sick ? Keep us updated.

So the picture is of D.W. and Charlotte at the river this morning, I had to run, OK, drive, into auburn this morning, so I took them with me and we went down to confluence on the way home. I know what you're thinking, I am very anti-river, but I have been watching it lower and lower over the last few weeks. It is very shallow and not moving very fast. Next time I will remember to throw in tennis shoes, not my sandals, with an already stubbed big toe. Not the easiest way to climb down or up hill. As you can see, they got their tummies wet and had a good time.

John is off to hunting/camping for a week on Friday. We took hogan over to high school to run around and see if he runs off, comes when called, does not get car sick. Well, he did not come when called off leash, he fastwalked/jogged away from us, and threw up on the sheet I put down. So, john is debating if he's going to take him or not. It is extremely remote where they are going, john has come across bears more than a few times. I'm still hoping he will take him, even if he leaves him in camp while they are "hunting" I would want some kind of warning if visitors came during the night. I could send the muskrat, she'd be happy to lay around camp all day and is quite a little watchmuskrat ! but she gets to stay home with me. I'm hoping to get another chance to go to another part of the river. Gotta Go................

She still has no name.

So, my little pup has graduated from the spending her days in the bathroom [1 day], the kitchen [4 days], to the living room. So far-- no incidents of any kind. She hasn't even chewed up one of the fifteen thousand shoes lying around. Geez! I'm thinking it's too good to be true and she's going to eat a neighborhood dog the first chance she gets.

I just bought the grossest thing at the store for her to eat. Pork ......wait for it..... NECK BONES. EW! What could those possibly be good for?

days without dog poop on the floor: 0
reasons why i love linoleum: see above

She was very frisky [with the zoomies] when I got home from lunch... it was cute.

They faxed me the prescription for her food at about 4:45-- just in time to NOT be able to make it to the vet's office. boo!

After settling her stomach with the food I know she can have-- I'll attempt to make some chicken/rice/veggie concoction. More about that later....

Tonight is BACON night--the night I cook two packages of bacon and cut them up into little treats. I think it'll drive her crazy. Last time I cooked them was before she got here...

Flip,Flop Fury..........

I love your story/experience raquel. I feel for you, i have never chased a dog in the rain, a pig once, but never a dog. Charlotte used to do the running off, when she escaped out of front door, i would call and call her, she'd make a run by, give me a look that said "oh, i'll come when I'M ready" so being the adult that i am, i started shouting things like "go ahead,don't come back, i can find a much cuter dog than you" my big gun was to shout O.K. b**** i'm going onto petfinder, hope the coyotes don't get you.
I think that was in my 3rd obedience class...... actually it was scary till the rotweillers that killed all the neighborhood dogs moved out about a year ago.
I'm having my nerve deading procedure this afternoon, so when i get nervous i will think of you stomping back to your apt. in muddy flip flops.... they'll all wonder why i'm giggling.
Hey, a day without dog poop on the floor is a very good day !

Keep the stories comming, love ya

Escapade.

During our lunch-time walk today [Maddy] decided she'd like to venture into the woods near the complex. We made it in about 30 feet and she tangled the leash around a some thorny branches. I held her collar and removed the leash just in time to loose my footing on some mud [it was raining, and I was wearing flip-flops]. So... the collar slipped away and she took a few steps, a few more, and by the time I looked up, she was trotting happily, sniffing, pawing around, and generally looking very happy with herself.

She took me over a mile or so of dense, hilly, muddy woods before we came to the back fence of some local plant. I tried to play like I didn't want to catch her, and after a while, I grabbed her collar and marched her home, -- although I found it's hard to walk like you really mean it in flip-flops.

I'm not SO mad, mostly because she was accident free today. Also, I was sitting on the floor rubbing her head and she was doing something between purring and snoring-- pretty funny.

Tuesday has been very fussy since Maddy got here-- even fussier than usual.

Poor Maddy....Or Whatshername

Sorry she's sick , even sick she's quite adorable, glad she likes you ! will she always need a special food, Yikes that can be expensive and time consuming. Maybe you could name her Mrs. Scooper's, sorry couldn't resist. I still like Layla as in Ali... keep us up to date.
We got tired of hogan digging in the front flower beds so we put some semi nice looking fence on the back side of flower bed. So far so good, no digging from the front.
I think we are going to get some new pics, Grampy was feeling left out cause there were no pics of minky. I told him to tell her sorry and if he will send pics i'll put her pics up. So all the burton dogs will be up ! See ya soon minky................

Good point. Ms. Poopers sounds a little silly, but... she is a little silly. And sicky.

It was nice to come home to a bathroom that didn't need cleaning up. And the SpotBot worked amazingly. As soon as I'm so sure she won't have more accidents like that, the SpotBot may become a WalMart rental.

I pinned her in the kitchen with a kiddie gate while she ate. She likes to drag the bloody hunk-o-meat all over, put it down, pick it up, bury it under her bed, and drop it on the company-furnished white couch next to me. She was very confused to find herself behind bars, and looked at me with the wad of meat in tow like, "aw, come on-- you know i can't eat this in here".

It turns out she's most content when chewing a bone [she hasn't touched the stuffed animal, and only wanted the Kong so she could lick the PB out] however, she won't chew a thing if I put her in the bathroom. She also hasn't gotten in the trash or chewed on any furniture or shoes. How lucky is that?

Raquel,
Remember Dash's nickname is Mr. Poopers. That doesn't mean there isn't a Ms. Poopers out there somewhere. Sorry she's sick...yucky, yuck, yuck, yucky, blahhhha....

Ruh-roh.

[Maddy] hasn't been feeling well-- she's used to eating a special prescription food [Science Diet Wet Food ID to be exact] and I haven't been able to get my hands on it. The vet's office said they would have it in stock on Wednesday, and that I'd need a referral from the Humane Society. It's rather hard to take her seriously-- after a 30-second conversation, I decided she may not have finished high school.

Anyway, over my lunch I bought this, hoping to avoid a steam cleaning of the whole apartment. This ended up being a 2 hour lunch, including the 30 minutes walk we took. She didn't use the bathroom, I'm sure she's saving it until I go back to work.

I'll have to report back about how it turns out.

It seems to be working... I left it going, and the poor pup is stuck in the bathroom until this evening... she cannot be trusted until her tummy is all fixed up.

BTW: it smells like 25 baby diapers were turned upside down in my living room, I turned off the AC to so I could ventilate the place. When I come home, I predict it will smell the same, only hotter. I feel bad leaving her in the bathroom, but hey-- what's a girl to do?

Good thing she's cute.

I'm also still in need of name ideas for her: so far I like Tandem-- because she's literally going to go almost everywhere I do. Too bad 'Poopers' is Dash's nickname-- she's on a roll.

Any suggestions?

Raquel sent these pictures of her new puppy. Doesn't she look sweet?

Hogan the Hero

Didn't hear from Raquel today, assume all went well, I'll have to call her tomorrow. Gotta give a big shout out to Hogan ! Bark, Bark, Bark, smell of skunk wafts up to the front of the house ! Yeah Hogan, nice barking.
John was talking to one of our neighbors this morning, they are closer to main road than we are. Neighbor has had dachshund killed by mountain lion, and have a bear regularly getting into their garbage ! I say keep barking Hogan, good dog boy, good dog.

HAPPY MADDY DAY !

This blog is for the Burton and extended Burton family to post and talk about dogs, o.k. cats upon approval. No coffee talk, No daughters talk, NO Barbara Streisand talk. Just Dog Talk !.... Sorry Linda Richmond.

So the news is that Raquel is driving down to Gadsden Alabama Saturday the 13th to adopt a doberman. Her name is Maddy, but Raquel will change that. She has spent the last week purchasing toys, beds,blankets, even a neon cape, so they can bike or walk at night and be seen. I told her she can't let my dogs see the list of items, they will feel quite unloved. But then again they're country dogs, don't need no fancy duds.

So I am going to post pics i have of family dogs, i didn't call it Burton girls cause Dustin has some pretty good stories and pics of his dogs and i want him to post. With going back to school (MBA) working and remodeling home and baby Katie in Dec, i might have to ghost post for him. So let's start posting........