Sunday, August 10, 2014

Kimo on the loose

Came home and let Kimo out without putting on the leash

Goes up the dh side of the house
Put then Pat and Keith are out in the area, uh oh

Naturally Kimo gets a bit excited but stays on his side of the wall as I go walk between them

But Keith continues going nuts, so Kimo gets excited and jumps the wall.

Pat gets a little frantic (though not as frantic as Keith) as Kimo gets into wolf mode

I try to stay between them, but Kimo gets close but really doesn't go all the way after Keith

I manage to snare his neck with the line of the flexi-leash and Kimo calms down after a little while.  Meanwhile Pat drags Keith away.

I should have learned after all this time.  I should always have a leash on Kimo in case of incidents like this.  But it mostly happens only with Keith.  And maybe with certain cats (but the cats can run away).

[8/10/14, posted 8/11/14]

Saturday, August 2, 2014

Lady and Helen Rosberg

An elderly black lab named Lady, who made headlines for walking 30 miles to return to the family that gave her up, will get to live out the rest of her days in comfort at the home of a wealthy Florida heiress. Her new mom sent a private plane to pick her up yesterday.

Lady first landed in a Sedan, Kansas animal shelter after her original owner passed away in 2012, KCTV reported. She quickly grew attached to the first family that adopted her, but they felt she was too rough with their puppy and worried she wasn't friendly toward little dogs. They returned her to the shelter.

She was adopted by a second family in Independence, Kan., earlier this summer, but Lady missed her previous home so much that she escaped and pulled a Homeward Bound, walking 30 miles to reunite with the owners who'd rejected her.

After that, neither of Lady's adopted families would take her back, so the old dog boomeranged back to the shelter for the third time.

That's where Wrigley Gum heiress Helen Rosburg comes in. Well-known as a dog lover, Rosburg once helped out a U.S. Marine who was going to lose his dogs by chartering a private plane to transport them across the country (they were too big for a commercial flight).

Rosburg just hired a private jet for Lady, too. She's personally adopted the dog, who will live at her 10,000 square-foot home on a 120-acre Odessa, Fla., farm, home to 300 rescue animals.
It couldn't have happened to a better dog.

"Super dog. Gentle, calm dog," Sedan animal shelter worker Kelsey Loyd told KCTV, "If I had to pick a dog, this would have been the dog I would take."