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Likes: Food! Gussie Finknottle! Back scratches! Digging! Chewing on bones! Tummy rubs
Pet-Peeves: CATS!!!! nail clipping, squirrels, rectal thermometers, ear cleaning
Favorite Toy: His giant Kong filled with treats, rope pull toys, dust mop, but only when Mom is using it
Favorite Food: Snausages, Beggin' Strips, jerky, people food
Favorite Walk: Anywhere he can pull to, sniffing cat tracks
Best Tricks: Sitting to wait to go out; hand shaking; begging by lying his chin on his mom's lap and rolling his eyes to follow her fork when she is eating
Arrival Story: He was a Mother's Day present. We lost our beloved Miniature Schnauzer, Sebastian, a few months before Mother's Day. Winston's mom wasn't sure for a while if she was ready for another dog, but when she started calling her granddog and leaving messages on the answering machine for her when the dog was home alone, the family knew Mom was ready for a pup of her own! Winston arrived as a complete surprise, wrapped up in a blanket with one little white paw sticking out. His mom squealed for about 5 minutes when she saw him.
Bio: Winston is a happy-go-lucky terrier who even likes to go to the vet (despite the fact that they removed his jewels several months ago!) He's crazy about his human sister's dog, Gussie Finknottle, even though she treats him like a dog.
Forums Motto: Where's that @%&#* CAT?????
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About a month ago on a Tuesday, Mom was walking me around the house. I was tending to some some three-legged business when Mom saw something move about 2 feet behind me. Upon closer observation she saw that it was a snake. YIKES!
It slithered up the side of the foundation of the house, through the louvers in the vent that goes into the crawl space under our house! It happened so fast that she didn't even have time to throw her shoe at it. She also didn't have time to see what kind of snake but it was black wiff some pattern on it.
Mom called Dad at his office and he wouldn't come home to look for it. He tried to reassure her that it couldn't get in the house but I think he was a big chicken. Mom checked around all the places where pipes or wires enter to make sure there was no room for the snake.
Two days later, Thursday Dad was walking me & he saw the snake crawling into the same vent. On Saturday he saw it again!
Mom had to wait til Monday to call Varmint Busters. The man crawled under the house & looked around thoroughly and determined that the snake was not there. He went to his truck to get some new screen to put over the vent where either the satellite tv man, and/or the phone man had pushed out the corner of the old screen to get the wires through & had not fastened it back well.
While the Varmint Busters man was under there fixing the screen the snake was outside and crawled up into the louvers and looked in at him!!!!! He jumped out the door and grabbed the snake by the rear end just in time before it crawled off! He put it in a pail wiff a screen on top of it. He said it was a garter snake. It was between 2 & 3 feet long.
He went back under the house & caulked around the new screen so no more varmints could get in there. He took the snake wiff him & said he would release it in the woods somewhere.
Mom told him she bets he released it earlier in our neighborhood to drum up business!
I had tried to tell Mom something was under there cuz I would go sniff at the vents & she wouldn't listen to me. Now she knows what I was barking/sniffing about.
Mom was so glad I didn't see it first cuz I would have caught it & shaken it's guts out & take it to her to tug wiff me.
Yesterday I was on the screened porch wiff my mom & Kerry Blue sister, Zoe. Mom & I heard a scratching sound & gnashing of teeth & turned around & Zoe had murdered a black wasp. She was playing wiff it. She was jumping at it, snapping & pawing at it.
We don't know how she did it wiffout getting stung. If she had been stung she surely would have cried. It must have flown in as we came in from one of our many walks. I know she did it to protect Mom & me. That is one brave cookie. Don't mess wiff her!
I just made a new discovery today. My pool is not just for drinking from but also to get my four paws into.
A couple months ago Mom & Dad took me to Critter Fest & there were two pools side by side for us doggies to drink from. I was slurping water from one when low & behold, a Bulldog pup got in the other one & lay down. I was flabbergasted!
Sooooooo, that's what this is for, I thought. Then I stepped cautiously into the sparkling cool water, first one paw, then another, then another, then another. I didn't lie down like the pup, but I loved the way it cooled me off.
The next day Mom got my pool out & cleaned it & filled it wiff water. I drank from it & walked around it but that is all I did for a couple of months.
Then this morning I was out on my new patio that Mom & Dad built for Zoe & me. The sun was getting hot & I was panting. I drank from it & then I stepped into it & right back out. Wheee, that felt good! I did it again, and again, and again. (Mom said about 12-15 times!) I stood longer & longer. I still didn't lie down in it. I guess Mom is glad, as she just paid big bucks to have me groomed on Wednesday.
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