Lady Comes And Goes....

Vicki called me this morning.  Thankfully I was awake when she called.  She was almost crying but she said she had to give me back Lady.  It seems Lady escaped and headed right for the farm next door.  The people that owned the farm raise chickens for their living.  Lady thought the birds were fun to chase all over the place (she dug a hole under the fence where the chickens were confined).  They had a fit and Lady thought their trying to catch her was good fun and not a real threat.  She eventually headed back to Vicki's and Vicki got a call from the neighbor.  They said if she showed up on their property again, they were going to shoot her.  I guess she caused a couple of the chickens to injure themselves and they were outraged over it.

They didn't care that Vicki had no idea that Lady would tunnel under the dog run she was in at the time.  They held her responsible and were dead serious about shooting Lady.  Since Vicki has another dog that's part Border collie like Lady, she had gone through this stage that Lady is in.  Lady really hasn't been trained to mind.  She has gotten good on a leash once we got the training collar for her.  She does know the commands for *sit* and *lay down* but she is headstrong on the command to *come* if she is in the mood to run and have fun.  Vicki, I believe, isn't up to the task of becoming the *leader* to Lady.  Until and unless someone takes that position and makes her respect them, she will be a bit on the wild side.

So I meet up with Vicki and get Lady from her as well as her bed and the paper from the vet that says she has had all her shots as well as rabies.  Lady is wearing her regular collar and the rabies tag is on it so no problem there.

Poor Lady seemed very confused when I took her from Vicki.  Vicki looked like she was going to cry and kept telling me she was sorry she had to give her back but she didn't want her shot.  She said she knows the neighbor and they would have shot her in a heartbeat.  The chickens are their means of making a living and they could care less that she was *just having fun* and wasn't being vicious.  I can understand.  Lady wasn't THEIR dog.

I wasn't all that upset primarily because Vicki was an older person and I had my doubts about her being up to the job of training Lady.  But her dog is older and I think she wanted Lady mostly for company when her other dog died, to put it bluntly.  I knew something Vicki didn't....Sheepie had a friend that already had an older dog that was also part Border collie and that friend wanted Lady.

We had the friend come over to meet with us (we wanted to get our own impression of her and make a judgment about if SHE was up to the job of becoming boss).  She brought her other dog to see if the two dogs got along (they did for the most part).  After talking with her and telling her the things that were good AND bad about Lady, she felt she could handle Lady in the same way she had handled her dog when she was younger.  She also is the type of person that takes her dog on long walks since she lives on a piece of property that has several acres of land.  Lady walked out to the car, on her leash and off she went.  But I feel so much better about Lady's future now.  She truly is a dear sweet dog.

We made BLT's today because we had fresh bread, good lettuce and a couple of tomatoes from the Beast's plants.  I want you to know....the sandwiches tasted AWESOME.  I had forgotten just how good a fresh, ripened on the plant (why do they say *the vine* when it's not a vine?) tomato tasted.  It was a totally different taste from what we had gotten used to eating.  I can't even describe how good the tomatoes were but I am looking forward to more of them ripening.  I can't wait to eat them.

All the rain has made the plants grow like crazy and they are full of tomatoes of various sizes.  We are going to check them all and lend additional support where it's needed.  They all are *caged* but as the tomatoes grow and ripen, they can end up breaking the branches they are on and that would be tragic.  We have a special kind of *tape* that we use that won't cut into the fragile branches but we can then tie them to the cage that is helping to support the plants.  The plants are just about twice the size of the support, they have gotten that tall!  When the Beast said they needed fertilizing, I had visions of giant tomatoes attacking....LOL.  Attack of the Killer Tomatoes was the absolute worst movie ever made.  I can't believe it was made seriously.  It had to be some kind of gag....but if it had been *Killer tomato PLANTS*, I think the Beast's plants might have been up to the part.

It was a nice, sunny warm day.  I checked with Cee and her son, Michael, had put the bookcase together very quickly once he came over to her house.  Figures, right?  He really didn't need the instructions because he said he's put together so many of the same type of things.  She now has her CD player and all her CD's in the bookcase.  When I was there, I got to see the bed she bought for the second bedroom.  She has such good taste in how she decorates things to suit her *style*.  Very nice and cozy feeling.  She hadn't gotten the picture for the wall that she ordered yet but it was supposed to come today.  She was going to have Michael hang it for her.  The whole apartment has a nice look and feel to it.  

Love you all.  I have to post this before it becomes a book...LOL.  Be good.  Be safe.  ***Hugs***