Your Pet! Missy & Jake!
Kathy, the owner of Missy and Jake, tells us that her dogs came to their family from the local pound. The picture above was taken the year that they were adopted, and Kathy and her family loved the photo so much that they used it on their Christmas card.
When Kathy and her family adopted Missy and Jake, Missy was eight years old and on the “short list” since she’d been at the pound for 4 months. Kathy says that Missy “is a beautiful and well-behaved rotty/shepherd mix.”
On adoption day, Jake was only a three-month-old “pupster.” He’s a hyper-curious, hyper-active black lab with a heart of gold. “He’s now a big fella,” says Kathy, “that still tends to socially greet everyone with a giant webbed-paw hug.” Jake has since been diagnosed with epilepsy, but is on meds and does very well. Visit Kathy’s blog at www.kathyboydfellure.com to read how Jake ate all Kathy’s vacuum cleaner attachments!
Kathy (Boyd Fellure) is a children’s book author. Catch up with her and check out her “Lake Tahoe Stories” at her website listed above!
Have any of your pets eaten household appliances?
The most unusual thing any of our pets ever ate was an entire birthday cake, eaten by our English Spring Spaniel Rocky who managed to get the cake off the counter and enjoy it as a midnight snack!
Blessings!
Sue
Thanks, Sue!
Your English Spring Spaniel Rocky could have celebrated with our sweet old Shadow. (Our first dog)
She ate an entire apricot pie for a midnight snack, no birthday celebration.
Kathy’s dogs sound like they keep life interesting. I think it’s wonderful that she and her husband rescued them.
One of our cats used to chew anything resembling string: mini-blind cords, bra straps, shoelaces, dental floss. We’re thankful he outgrew this habit after a few years.
I love stories about rescued animals, Keli. I’m laughing that your cat loved string-things! It is true though that, if you can get through the first few years of mischief, most animals settle down to be well-behaved. Our schnauzer Wofgang is 11 now and I’d swear that he can read my mind.
Oh Kathy, I’d sure hate to lose an apricot pie! At least the birthday cake was not yet decorated, just frosted with a thin glaze to keep the crumbs down. I planned to re-frost it in the morning and decorate it for the birthday party. Instead I had to bake a whole new cake.
Sue, It was the only time my family let me pick apricot pie as I’m the only one who likes it. It happened when we lived in Morgan Hill, pre-Missy & Jake days. During the night we all heard what we later realized was the pie tin on the hardwood floor. Poor old Shadow, she bolted out the door to relieve herself in the morning. I always place yummy treats up on the fridge now. But I’ve heard from other pet owners, that isn’t always safe either!
Poor Shadow, Kathy!! My “pie story” is about an apple pie. My husband, my father, and my husband’s father went on a fishing trip together. I sent an apple pie along with them, and my husband, afraid the 2 dads would get the lion’s share of the pie, hid it under a rain tarp on a bench. My father-in-law sat on it. Neither he nor my husband have ever lived that one down!