Saturday, January 28, 2012

Lucy, horses, & sheep O my!

Lucy has been staying with us for a week now, and she is settling into the routine and making herself at home.  She has HUGE amounts of energy, and just likes to be in the mix of everything all of the time.

 Today we stopped by the vet to get her spay sutures out (turns out there were none!), and it was really busy, so we took a walk around outside.  We were walking near the fields when she noticed the horses.  She barked a couple of times, and then a couple of them ran up to fence, scaring her, more barking.  Well then the bay stallion kept eyeing her and let out of low neigh that scared her even more.  I couldn't help it, it was hilarious!!

Later, this afternoon we took her out to see what she thought of herding sheep.  She was scared of them too, barking at them, but also chasing them :)  She exhausted herself running after the sheep today.  So she is interested, but not very confident about it.  Definite potential:)


Our dogs are accepting of Miss Lucy...well with Bailey it is more that she has accepted that she lives there for now, but she doesn't have to like it :)  Bay just wants to play ball and be around us,  she has no interest in playing with pups, never really has.  Lexi & Lucy play and wrestle @ high speed and all of the time!!  It is great!  Foster was completely in love with her the first day or so, and now it has simmered down to just plain like:)

It is amazing how adding one dog to the household can seem to take over everything!! lol

Friday, January 20, 2012

It has been a while!! I guess the big news here is that we are going to be fostering a very pretty 1yr old red/white border collie named Lucy starting this weekend.  She was surrendered to the Memphis Animal Shelter last week, and a local BC rescue, West TN Border Collie Rescue, pulled her out this week.  We offered to foster her, and here we are!!

We have been told that she hasn't had much if any training including being house broken.  Bright side to that is that we won't have to untrain anything :) lol!  We are really looking forward to helping out this pretty girl find a forever home!  

In other news, we are getting ready to start back to competing in agility starting February.  I nearly always take off  December & January :) Mike has been doing some competitions with Bailey (who just turned 11 yesterday! Happy Birthday Bay!) and doing really well!  


Just a short post for now...more to come about the pups, Lucy, and us :)