In Love With Some Wolfies: Lazy Dog Days and Waiting for Dinner

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Lazy Dog Days and Waiting for Dinner

Isn't she just adorable? Left to her own devices Elsie spends the afternoon on the only unbroken dog bed

Here is Elsie practicing her new maneouver entitled the "Elsie Yawn"

Elsie: "Hrm, well that was a pretty good effort but I think I can do better"

Elsie: "MUUUCH better. Now what do I do?"
She starts to look around for more entertainment.

Do you have anything interesting for me to do?

Elsie: "Oh GOD. I'm SOOOO bored!"

I love how elegantly she has draped herself over the bed, with her tail to one side and her paw just dangling over on the other.

Deciding that me and my camera are simply TOO booorrring, Elsie decides she has earnt a well deserved nap

Fred watches Elsie in concern. You're never going to get fit just lying there Else...

Later that evening the puppies wait patiently inside to be called out to dinner. Fred looks hungry and bummed.

Oh! What's that? Someone's gotten up. It could be time for dinner!

Hang on.. why is he going over there? Dinner's the other way...

1 comment:

XarataJanuary 13, 2011 at 6:02 PM
I love how her ears go back when she yawns! They are too cute together.

I started following your blog right around the time Elsie joined the family, and I have to say it's been a pleasure reading/watching her steal your heart. From "I'm still not sure about her" and "she's not the look I wanted..." to "isn't she just ADORABLE?!?!?" I love it :)
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Ginger came to us after we drove 5 hours to Tumburumba, in inland country NSW. She had been saved from Wagga Wagga pound by a rescue group and was busy helping inmates rehabilitate at a correctional facility before we came along and took her home. She's a smoochy 2 year old who is the newest addition to our pack and has a soft spot for belly rubs.

Larry was a death row dog in a country pound that got saved by a rescue group. He was underweight, timid and shy. He was transported down to a loving foster family in Canberra, who helped him blossom into a healthy smoochy confident dog. He has joined our pack and keeps Ginger on her toes playing chasies before coming inside and worming his way into any potential cuddles on offer.

Fred (2007-2016) was found wandering the Mulgoa countryside by a ranger who took him to Hawkesbury Pound in 2007. With no microchip, and no one to claim him, he sat there for a week and was on death row, until wolfieboy found him listed online. We drove 2 hours to pick him up. He was a 6 month old puppy with big puppy feet and a head that he needed to grow into. He's been the light of my life and my Heart Dog. Fred passed away in July 2016 after his spleen burst. The vet tells us he must have had a cancerous growth that we were unaware of, until it was too late. I miss Fred with an ache that I cannot explain, and wish I could still bury my face in his big boofy tummy.

Elsie (2010-2015) came from Queanbeyan Pound after being left in their overnight cages one September night in 2010. She was flea-bitten, stunk to high heaven and was skinny as a rake. She was a princess of the highest order, and I still remember the time she refused point blank to walk any further and simply lay down on the ground, looking at me with her big brown eyes. Such a drama queen. She was wonderful with wolfiepup and they spent many an afternoon sitting outside, watching the world go by. Elsie passed away in April 2015 suddenly at the young age of 5 to lymphosarcoma. I miss her every day.

Fred and Elsie now spend their days high on the hill looking out to the view that Elsie was always enamoured with, and we visit often.