The Dogs, Day 5: Trip to the River

Saturday: a gorgeous day; we needed to get out of the cardboard box and go to the river. Little guy trotted along, a real trooper. He still doesn't come, sit or stay. He won't even look up when you whistle (nope, he's not deaf), but he follows along the trail, stays around Zephyr and me. And when he wondered a bit far I ran after him, turned him around like a wind-up toy and he trotted on with us.

He does not like the water. He also does not like peanut butter (!). He does like to pee on everything.

Starting out on the high grass

 On the trail through the trees

 keeping up with Zephyr

 A pause to smell the foliage

 Something in the fall air



 First and only dog in the river



 Walking back along the water. Each rock was like a small mountain for little guy.



 The salmon have run and now there, well, ick. You can smell them in the air. Zephyr's checking out the source.

An hour and a half later, back in the jeep, little guy curled up, shivering in his basket. 

Out cold before I even got in. Big day for a little guy that was scurrying down a gutter, covered in mud 4 days ago. Who ever saw this coming.

d, xo

P.S. a guy on the trail asked, "What IS that? It looks like a hedgehog." Poor little dude. :-) 

LOST DOG, DAY 3

If you haven't heard, I found another dog. Here he is, all ratty, dreadlocked & lost. Poor dude. I've been "fostering" him for a few days now because I can't bare to give him up to the pound. Zephyr (my own dog) isn't sure about all of this, but we're trying.

Right now he needs a bath, a REAL dog grooming bath, complete with nail trimming, de-dreadlocking, flea goop and, sorry, an anal glan clean-up, which apparently is a small dog thing & let's not say anything else about THAT.

The cost is $35 to get this guy to the least expensive neighborhood, reliable groomer I could find. Plus, he needs a proper small dog harness, which is all pushing my budget at the moment. So, if you would like to help clean up this little dude, make him presentable for adoption I would be incredibly grateful. Just donate what you can at the PayPal button above, left.

I promise to show before & after photos too!
Your karma will rock.

dahlila xo

p.s. I tried adding the donation button to my Wordpress blog, but it wouldn't take. For the original Lost Dog post, look here: http://snowflowerstreet.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/lost-dog/