Charlie

We've been waiting (at least some of us have) eagerly for the right dog to come along, and beating the bushes a bit, considering different kinds of puppies, dogs...and this week, along came Charlie, who is actually a girl, and who will actually look quite different when her hair grows in a bit...she is a bearded collie (remember the Shaggy Dog?) who has had a hard last few months when her family broke up and the mother and child went back to England and she was left with father, who travelled, and so she was given back to her breeder, who gave her to a woman who didn't have time for her and she chased the ducks and got all muddy and swam in the pond...so she's clipped short of all the mats, and back to the breeder, who is a local woman who clearly loves her dogs. Charlie is about a year old, and loves attention and chasing Pukekos...she needs to learn not to get on the furniture, and some basic obedience, but she is smart and likes to play, and Joseph and Emily are planning on teaching her some tricks...she is not at our house yet, as we have to get the fence bolstered a bit (it's only 4 feet high in some places, and she can jump that) and we're planning to go to the beach the weekend after this. When we get home, she'll come home too, and the family will be complete again...at least that's my perspective. Manford may have something different to say--

back to work!
Carrie