The Good, The Bad, And A Winner

Hi All, John says that I do not talk about him in my blogs, so this time i will

talk about him a lot. So everyone knows how frustrated i have been about skunks, raccoons, and turkeys, day and night, the midnight skunk baths d.w. and charlotte have had to have.

So my idea was to get a "watchdog" that is an outside dog to chase off these interlopers onto our vast track of land. John vehemently disagreed, because he likes shooting them in the wee hours of the night. As you know he is gone 2-3 nights a week and i am not adept at shooting in the night or day, nor do i want to acquire this particular skill.

I decided that i was just going to get a dog and be strong on my defense however as john was helping dustin and jamie work on their home repairs the other night, "they" felt compelled to tease him with my plan- it did not go well at home.. thanks d & J. Anyway after some "discussion" and "debate"a little more "give" and "take" It was "decided" that i could get another dog, Rules for dog: 1. If its a german shepherd, it has to be named after a character in Hogans Heros- thanks nic at nite 2.he/she could never, never,never come in the house. 3. he/she can never go anywhere with us !
4. It really can't be part of our family, our family of dw and charlotte is perfect and can't include anyone else. So with those rules , i continued to follow up on some of the dogs i had been checking up on on craigslist.

It's a very weird thing that people who are losing their home want you to pay a "rehoming" fee anywhere from 50- 450 dollars. That i will never do.
So i had inquired about a "urgent shelter" dog from the merced animal shelter. Same shelter i got dw from, i had emailed the coordinator and let her know that i was not able to pay the rehoming fee etc. She emailed back saying they would waive all fees, but this dog was going to the rainbow bridge later this week. I said bring him up, they actually car pool dogs up to sac every week for people to pick up. So i found myself at a Denny's on Howe ave waiting for a van full of dogs, it looked like a drug buy with leashes when the van pulled in.

So here we are at home with Hogan, he is shephard mix, not the best looking dog out there i will agree, but he is smart,sweet and very obedient.
d.w. does not like him at all, gives him the stank eye and a growl when he gets a chance, guess it's good to be the dog king too. but hogan does not do the big back yard at all, i realized yesterday that he had been at pound for a full month. So he's been sleeping on front porch at night and hangs around front door during the day. that's what i was looking for, i'm pretty happy and dad is grudgingly accepting him, hard not too, he's very friendly. and more important, no skunks, raccoons and turkeys the last two nights, although i have not heard him bark yet.

So here is where i thank dad for being a good guy and letting me deal with this in my way. And no hogan has not been in the house at all !! and since he threw up in my truck on the way home, he'll not be going on any trips. He does run thru sprinkler to cool off i noticed, can't wait to see he and zell run thru sprinkler. So that's my last couple of days......

On a personal note, most of the smoke from fires is gone, but my allergies are back with a vengeance, thank the Good Lord for Zyrtec D, I'm living on it. And if you haven't talked to john lately he thinks that job change will become apparent buy the middle or end of august! so maybe we' ll be packing or we'll be hanging out for years too come.

So here are a few pics of Hogan, he is very dark so it's hard too get a good pic of him. Hey Jay, Free is not always bad.......

Love u all