January 30th 2010 3:08 pm
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OMD, it was as big as a cow and as ugly as sin - it was a WILD HOG. And that is one of the things I have to tell about in this entry. We went to Quitaque, TX and stayed in a Bed and Barn, yep we shared quarters with 2 horses, who my Mom named Gracie and Joe, and I had to go out to the barn part every once and a while and put them in their place. Horses tend to get uppity...
My bud Spig (Jack Russell) and her people came too and we had a ball. Out in the middle of nowhere - the town has 400 people in it and the country has a million deer. There was this information letter at the B&B that said - THIS IS RATTLESNAKE COUNTRY - DO NOT LEAVE THE DOORS OPEN! But cuz it was really cold, they weren't around. Grass burrs, though, there was a bunch of them.
We got stuck in the snow and had to get pulled out by a tractor. That was fun - and that was the first night! It jerked us so hard my mom and me almost hit the ceiling and I had to calm Mom down cuz she thought we were gonna have to spend the night in the truck, which woulda been okay for me cuz my bathroom is right outside the truck door - BOL
And some kind of wild cat came into the barn one night and tore open the trash and made weird moaning noises which also upset Mom. He left big pawprints in the sand in the barn. And a skunk came too! And coyotes! Yippee - bring on the wildlife!
Get this - think we are going back SOON!!!!!
November 11th 2009 4:16 pm
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Ok this is paradise for deer. Leakey, Texas on the Frio River! Mom has a friend who let us stay at their place in the country and woo hoo there was a deer feeder in the back yard and let me tell you, those deer were scared of me. Tons of them would be meandering around and off I'd go - and that deer would be 10 miles away, trembling in his hooves! BOL ! It was great. There a bunch of pecan trees - and you know what that means - SQUIRRELS! Yep, when I wasn't keeping the yard free of deer I was yipping and chasing tree rats! AND the place next door had 6 dogs - 4 boston terriers and 2 border collies. We were introduced and eyed each other every evening when their folks came home. We took a lot of drives in the country and one place had giraffes, gnus, peacocks, camels, wallabys and kangaroos and some of those African deer with big horns. One day these guys were trying to capture the roos with what looked like a butterfly net. They were not successful. All in all it was a great vacation - of course when I get my humans with me 24/7 for 10 days - that's always the BEST!
April 19th 2009 12:13 pm
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Let's see, what did I do? I have put some photos on the page to help with the story - #1 - This is the Rio Grande River - the mountains are in Mexico. I of course offered my assistance to the border patrol to sniff for stuff - you have to go through their check point at several places down there. They didn't take me up on it - but my dad and I did go down to the riverbank to see if we could see anything suspicious.
Javalenas - this is in OUR BACK YARD. These things are the most hard headed animals on earth. Rocks and slingshots - they just ignore! Of course my mom is the most hard headed mom too - she puts down birdseed that the pigs LOVE. So I go nuts and bark at them every chance I get.
This is a bullfight I had to referee on the ranch. Some guy was using our pasture to feed 13 bulls, yep all guys, and every once in a while, one of them obviously said something smarty to the other one and then they got into this shoving, kicking dust, pushing each other's head kinda fight. Everytime we drove through the pasture, I set em straight all right - barked my head off at them to tell them to chill.
#4 - This osprey was on the ranch in a big cottonwood tree. I didn't do much at all about him, but my folks thought he was cool.
I also got to see a bunch of deer, roadrunners, one wild turkey, a fox, a bunch of jackrabbits, and a ton of feral pigs. They were at the spring on the ranch - there were 2 moms and about 25 little piggy babies. They are supposed to be bad for the country - probably because they have so many little babies.
I got to take walks in the country everyday, go up into the mountains to explore, drive the pick-up around the ranch and have all that time with my folks!
My folk's friends were there for a while too and they have a jack russell named Spig. She was ok, except when I tried to introduce myself properly (butt sniffing you know) she took exception to that and growled at me. What?
It was a great vacation and I know we'll go again! :)
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