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Learning to be a Trucking Dog

It is my Birthday!

WOW! I got a new toy for my birthday from Mommie! It squeaks and it looks like a frog! I will play catch with it in the yard!

Daddy will be home next week! Maybe he will being me a birthday present too!

Thanks to DOGSTER for my birthday card and the present!

WOW!

In January of 2009, my human daddy got hurt bad when he was up on a ladder, loosening his tarps to unload a load of hay. The ladder slipped on the loading dock-no one had put salt on it or cleaned it off, and down he went, breaking his T-12 vertebrae and some ribs. He ended up in the hospital in Arkansas, and Mommie had to drive down there and get him, the truck and trailer! She just loaded her car on to the trailer, and away she went-got it all home to Illinois, including Daddy!! Daddy wasn't able to work at all for almost 2 months, and even then, he was very limited in what he could do. Mommie and I had to go with him-Mommie to help him drive and help tie down loads, and me, to watch over them!!

It was hard to learn to be a trucking dog! At first, I was scared and hated being shut up in the truck, but I soon learned that if I needed to go outside that all I had to do was whine, and that Mommie & Daddy would stop and take me out on my leash. I also learned that it was pretty cool to sleep in the sleeper on a blanket, or to cuddle with Mommie or Daddy when they were in the sleeper! I did one very bad thing-I destroyed (by chewing) a whole carton of cigarettes! Mommie was very mad at me because I ruined them and also because they could have made me very sick. They didn't make me sick, and Mommie learned that it is best ot put things like that up high, out of my reach! I am sorry that I did that! I saw a lot of different places and I had a lot of fun! I also learned that it is my job to protect Daddy's truck, as well as my parents, and that I should bark at anyone or anything that gets too close to the truck!

Over all, it was a cool experience! Daddy is better now, and able to go trucking by himself again, so Mommie and I are back home with the cats, and I can play in the yard every day! I do love to herd the cats!
I'd never hurt them, cause they are MOMMIE"S BABIES, but I love to tease them and herd them! Some of them get mad at me, but most of them like me! My Mommie says that I am a good girl!