Wordless Wednesday: Wiggles

Returning

Enough is enough! Look around, this is a perfectly good blog, right? And when was the last post? June. JUNE! We have to take the problem in paw and save our blog. Forget the mother who neglects our special site. Going to the Dogs is being taken over by the dogs - us, Lena and Stella.

So what has happened since that last pathetic post featuring me in the slammer? Well, mom bailed me out but none too fast was she. Let me sit an extra day, something about not being able to make it cuz she was gone doing something with that stupid red horse of hers. Grrrrrr.

But I was so, so, so, so, so, so, happy to see her and get out of there back to my own home and my own specials.

Our Story Thus Far . . .

. . . Ah Lena. Lena! Here is catching up in just a few sentences. Horse Camp was wonderful and Lena was a very good dog. A couple of weeks later, she deeply buried her good dog status when she jumped the fence and RAN AWAY!

Lena never leaves me. Never. Her place in life is about six inches behind me. If I leave her at home, I need to be sure she is inside. And that the door is tightly shut and locked. Why? Cuz if she is outside she flies over the fence and goes, goes, goes, until someone stops her. Usually someone will call cuz I have my phone number around her neck. They will say what a cute, sweet dog she is. I will thank them and go retrieve my determined run-a-way girl. Not this last time. She ended up in the Humboldt County Animal Shelter. I was just so relieved to know she was safe. She was SO happy to see me when I went to pay her bail and reclaim her.

What has she been up to since her homecoming. Doing what she loves most . . . herding her mom and finding the best of the stinkiest to roll in.

Lena: Oh Oh!

Lena is Going Horse Camping!

Be back on Sunday!!!

Lena doesn't know it yet, but she is going horse camping for the weekend at Cuneo Creek Trail Camp. She is so comfortable and sensible around horses, I think she'll have a blast even though she can't go out on the trail.

Stella will stress too much around so many horses so she will get to hang with my son's dogs Ben and Willow. She'll have her own fun weekend playing with her extended family.

Remember the Animals who Served

Today please remember the many animals who gave their lives,

 conscripted to serve humans in war:

Statistics of the heavy, heavy toll of war born by those 

who had no choice (stats from BBC article, 11/24/2004 ).

Horses - Eight million killed in WWI alone, carrying men, arms and supplies into battle

Pigeons - 200,000 used as messengers in WWII. Of 17,000 parachuted into enemy territory, fewer than one in eight returned.

Dogs - used to hunt mines and search for the wounded. Still routinely used today

Mules - used as transport in the Burmese jungle, with their vocal chords slashed to keep them quiet

Camels, oxen and elephants - used for similar purposes elsewhere

Dolphins and sea lions - used today to find underwater mines and protect ships

Glow worms - used in WWI as an aid for map reading

Lena Giving Me the Post-bath, Still Not Forgiven Look