So I've posted in another blog about the dog I was given as a birthday present this year. Turns out I have a pretty smart dog on my hands....He's smart in that he seems to able to escape out of the pen no matter what we do to keep him inside it lol. Until we get a pen built up closer to the house, he is staying where dad keeps the hunting dogs when they are at my house instead of at my brothers. This dog has chewed wire, wood, and a metal fence just to get out. I did not think this was possible! lol. He chewed on the fastenings that were holding the wire at the end of the gate down and formed a hole that he was able to squeeze out of. He gets out and then I open the door up at the house and hes there waiting for me wagging his tail like he's saying "I'm baacckk." I could just leave him running loose if I didn't live on such a busy highway and I knew he would not go to the road. Ive been letting him out each day and letting him run free that way he gets a feel for the place and he will mainly stay around the house so that I can leave him out without worrying about him. When he was given to me, he had a metal collar around his neck. Now that he has been playing the Houdini game and has been squeezing through tight spaces, his collar has snapped into and broken into pieces. So I am replacing that with a different type of collar now. One that will not just snap.

I laughed the first time he got out (first night that is, he got out twice that night). I had him on a leash and was waiting for my dad to walk to the back with his tools so that we could fix the pen where Toby had chewed on. I knew it was my dad that was walking towards us...Toby obviously did not. He got real still when he saw my dad walking around the carport looking for tools, and even got where he was standing ahead of me. Well dad gets closer to us and Toby starts barking his head off! Not the hey I want attention bark...more like Hey just who are you bark....I get him calmed down and of course Dad looks at me and says "If he ever bites me.....and leaves it as that...there wasn't any need for him to finish the sentence because I knew the answer to that. Of course later dad laughed about it and I added the remark, "Daddy you know he was just protecting his mistress." I found it funny...Dad not so much. lol.

Things have definitely been interesting since he has been around. That I can say atleast!