November 15th 2011 1:50 pm
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Just got back from Caprock Canyons! Cool place with tons of critters to monitor - let's see, ya had your buffalo, your deer, your pheasants, your sandhill cranes, your wild hogs, your turkeys, your coyotes, your foxes and even one skunk crossing the road! BUT and this is the sad part, residing there is Queenie, the Barn Cat. This place is a Bed&Barn, 3 bedroom house on one end, stable and corral on the other - you just open the bathroom door, and there are horses and a tack room, hay - all that barn stuff. Also, there is the cat. She acts like she owns the place. Doesn't look scared at all when she sees me. IN FACT she likes to act like she is stalking me - it's downright creepy. You go out on the front porch and she scrambles to the front of the house; you go out the bathroom door, there she is! And she has this little "I'm so cool" look on her dumb cat face (I'll put a pic of her on my page). AND she's always trying to make friends with my mom and dad. You know that icky rubbing against your legs thing they do. So we had a great time - but this is the third time Barn Cat has been there, so I guess it's a cross I have to bear. Couple of my Dogster buds have offered to go out there first and let her know what's what, but I think the owner of the Bed&Barn likes her - she eats mice and stuff. Dawg, hasn't he heard of mouse traps?
June 21st 2011 8:52 am
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We stayed in Taos, Pagosa Springs, Silverton, Delores, Soccoro, and Roswell, the longest in Taos Ski Valley which was way up 9200 ft. A husky dog greeted us first off and she wasn't even the house dog! And the owner had a BIG cat - 22 lb. Elwood. We looked at each other a lot and I barked at him, when behind the window. Hey, I'm not stupid...We took drives all over and walked around all those places. They got some strange animals up there. One day while on a drive in the mountains, Dad brakes for this animal who is sunbathing in the middle of the highway, actually on the center stripe. He lumbers off into the woods - I find out it's a marmot. Then in Colorado at our cabin, there is an army of chipmunks and ground squirrels (neither resemble the tree rats at my house). I get to bark a lot at them, but of course cannot chase them, "They're so cute." my mom whines. Bite-size squirrels is what they are, specially those chipmunk things. Saw a snow-shoe rabbit - that dude had humongous feet! And deer and antelope and stuff like that. Bunch of elk crossing signs everywhere, but no elk. And mountain sheep - same thing. Guess my reputation had preceded me. Went to White Sands - radical place but it was like 102 outside and I was really appreciating the AC about then. Last night we were at Roswell, where the aliens ended up and it was a big stink. There were little green aliens all over. Even a KFC had a sign "Aliens Welcome." But you know, they won't let DOGS come in, wazzup with that???
March 17th 2011 1:31 pm
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I don't know what was the best thing about this trip - the pigs or the deer - oh wait it was all the smells on the walks in the state park, yep that's the ticket. There were a couple of drawbacks - mainly one dumb cat named Queenie who lived in the barn and was a real smarty-pants. Coming up to my mom and dad and rubbing on their legs, trying to sneak in the house - at least twice successfully. Trying to PLAY with me, OMD! I showed her, by Dog, I would eat some of her catfood every chance I got - ha ha! And then there was Bandit, the boy horse, who lived there too - he was pretty cool and he loved my mom and dad - it was a carrot and oats kinda thing. But anyhoo, we saw a bunch of wild pigs roaming around - you shoulda heard my mom trying to call them - snort snort. (Don't give up your day job, mom, oh wait you DON'T have a day job.) She thinks she is a good turkey caller too - and they were everywhere. Deer out the wazoo, buffalo, a couple of coyotes, and a ton of dead skunks - wazzup with that? It was scary cuz there were wildfires everywhere - a couple pretty close to us! Spig and her family visited a couple of days, and of course she has to have an attitude - always does - but I grinned and bore it. All in all, I would say it was a terrific 2 weeks and I'm ready for the next trip!
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