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April 19th 2007 6:56 pm
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Hey Pups!!!
You are all such good friends~ I would love to see your sweet faces on my page! If you have a minute, please sign my guest book. Let me know if you have one you would like for me to sign as well! Sending lickies from Central Washington!
Barks and Lickies,
Ella!!!

I got to go to Seattle! And I didn't have to camp when I- was there!

December 26th 2006 5:51 pm
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Mommie, Daddy, Grandpa and I drove in that blue box thing on Christmas Eve. It was pretty scary, because Mommie yelled out one time and she said the "s" word because the blue box started sliding and almost hit another box. We drove, and there was snow EVERYWHERE, and lots of it. And the best part was that there was no other doggie foot prints through any of it that I could see! As soon as we got 1/2 of a Eukanooba hour away from where we were going, it was all green~ no snow. And it was REALLY green! I got to play with a really pretty doggie named Blue, and I heard everyone saying that he's a Grey Ghost (but he didn't really look like a ghost). He's my doggy cousin. And I played with the mini's as Mommie and Daddy call them (Schnauzers), but there was an extra Mini that came out of nowhere. I don't know that Mini! Everyone was so nice to me, and unlike those other puppies, I only was scolded once the whole time! It was good over in that green place, and we came back to the snow on Christmas Day and Teakah and I were able to spend Christmas day together! Hope that everyone's Christmas was Barkrific!

Homemade Babones!

November 25th 2006 3:46 pm
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11/25/06
Mommie made some homemade babones yesterday! She worked very diligently in the kitchen where our Eukanooba's are kept. Teakah and I smelled this wonderous scent that filled every last corner of the house for about 2 hours. (The only reason that I know what an hour is is due to me using them to calculate when I get my Eukanooba's. I won't even wait until 6:00 pm, I usually let her know it's that time about 5 minutes before!) As they began coming out of that hot box, mommie let me and Teakah test a few! They were soooo yummy! Then mommie gave me & Teakah each a small bite of the raw stuff. I spit mine out back onto the floor... I hope I didn't hurt mommie's feelings then. Later, after she was done baking, mommie decided to test her treats up against some store-bought basted ones. Teakah went first, and mommie let her sniff each babone, and Teakah chose the Peanut Butter ones that mommie made (Buttkiss). Then it was my turn. :-( Mommie let me sniff each one, and I chose the basted ones! :-( I hope that didn't hurt mommie's feelings; I heard Daddy remark something about Ella hurting her feelings. Mommie tested her hypothesis on us two more times, and I tested true to my original choice: the basted bones. So did Teak though- she chose peanut butter 3 times. I just wish that Mommie knew that I just like the beefies better than peanut butter in general, and that her bones were delish!
Have a good day, I'll bark more later!
~Ella~

My Tail of Devotion for Ella

August 28th 2006 10:14 pm
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During the second day of our family reunion at the Snake River, a family photo was going to be taken by a photographer. While we were waiting to take the pictures, my uncle, my cousin, his friend and I decided to strike up a friendly little game of family football. Shortly before the game began my wife had left to take a shower. Our dog Ella (The Black Triangle), was being obedient as she usually was, and I just assumed that she was still tied up to a picnic bench, as she had been earlier. Much to my surprise, she was not. She was just hanging around with a loose leash, but we were unaware. Everything that she wanted was right at her paws, so she had no reason to wander off, even with an untethered leash. People, food, and the pack as she knew it- all within a gallop. All was well for Ella.
Then the game began. Guys running, throwing toys, and The Ella, being the furthest thing from anyone’s mind. Suddenly, mommy was missing, daddy was playing (and was no longer visable), and there were no lovies being given to this precious creature. Chaos to a dog. The makings of a total catastrophe.
After playing football for about 15 minutes, I realized that Ella was gone. I began frantically calling out her name, contemplating the devastation that lay on the forefront of this campground. My wife would flip a lid if she even found out that Ella wasn’t being supervised properly. Not to mention what would happen if I had to tell her that her precious Black Triangle decided to sniff out the Snake River on her own. Deep water, undertows, and the only lab that I have ever heard of that doesn’t really know how to swim. I would never live it down. This was a total nightmare. I immediately went into survival mode and began scanning the environment for traces of our dog with her newfound abandonment/freedom. I wandered the park, looking through trees, grass, people and their coolers. I scanned the river front, and all of the kids splashing in the water. I saw the dock, the boats, the jet skis, and all the people without a black lab trailing behind. I eventually let my eyes gaze upwards towards the nearby parking lot. Vehicles, parking blocks, boat trailers...our car.... It was then that something caught my eye in that Dodge Neon of ours. I climbed the hill up to the car and noticed a shady figure moving about. As I got closer I realized that the shady figure was indeed the black triangle that I had been looking for. She was in the passenger seat of the car. My heart regained it's normal rhythm, and the adrenaline circulated it's last course through my body. I could breathe.
Ella had sought out the only thing that she knew in this unfamiliar environment, which happened to be our car. She dove through the window that day, with muddy paws and all. I am sure that her heart was racing, thinking the end was near and all. The paw prints and slobber mapped out her quest for what she thought was her only path back to the happiness that she’d grown so accustomed to. Fight or flight. We are truly lucky that she didn’t bust out the window in her perseverance. She didn’t do it because she wanted to sit in a car that was probably 130 degrees, and she didn’t do it because she was being a bone-headed lab. She did it because she was smart, and knew that if she stayed in a familiar place, we would eventually find her there. She found the vessel that brought us to this strange smelling, fish bearing, freak of a campground, and she knew it was there she would wait. And she would wait with faith.

We would come back. This Ella knew that much.

People try to teach their kids this kind of thing. Ella is a lab. Ella is a dog.

People should think twice before they pass off a dog as being so different from themselves or other people that they know. Ella was never taught by her parents what she should do if she become lost. She followed her heart without reservation. That is worth a tail of devotion.

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