Just like the books say.. Liza is a ratter! Good dog

See the cute dog to the right? that's Liza, not just a pretty face show dog. Earned her top dog badge tonight! The doggie door is open 24/7 & with that we have had many adventures since it's not just the dogs that use the door. Anyway I think our newest visitor used the door and has been trying to get to the cat food that is in a secure container. In the wee hours of this morning Liza was awake and consumed by the container. I thought she found a stray piece of cat food and could not reach it.. I was wrong.. something darted out from under the cupboard and took off with her in pursuit. I was shocked! Whatever it was, was also big. Liza did not catch it and eventually settled back down.

Now it's evening and I have the lights off out in the kitchen and I am happily getting settled to check email when I hear a noise from the other room. Jumping up I see the cat very intent on the birds cage bottom. Closing all doors and moving the dog gate to cut off the kitchen I let Liza in with the cat and she becomes very interested in the cage and goes all around it. I stay behind the gate and when I look behind the cage along the wall and I see sticking out a very large tail! Uh oh.. rat! After a few min Liza darts to the back side and then before I know it this creature comes charging out from under the cage and hits the family room door with a bang! I yell for Liza and she comes running. Sees this thing jumping like over 3 feet in the air trying to get away and POW! Liza is on it! Smashing it to the floor many times. Sounds effects were not so pleasant but it was over quickly and there is Liza strutting her stuff with this dead thing in her mouth. I convinced her to drop it and get her to my side of the gate and praise her for being such a Good Dog! Thankfully hubby is on his way home to remove the deceased.

can't howl worth a darn

At least mine can't howl. What a sorry sound they create when they try to howl with the neighbor dogs. We live very close to an Emerg Services building so fire trucks and ambulances go by on a regular basis with lights and sirens in full swing. This sets the dogs off running for the back yard and they start the catter walling some may think is a howl... it's so pathetic. So mine can't howl, can yours?

Greed can be a positive force

The 2 troopers of the family are Bear & Liza.. With them you can just count on certain things. Good grub to be had Liza will take on all comers and growl like nobody's business. Of course Bear could care less and says okay you can have it, you'll forget the bone later and then it's mine! With adding Hobo to the mix he is larger than the other two who are more to the breed standard. He knows he's big and will use his size to push his way to the front and stake claim on whatever he thinks may be worth being first for. I don't do scraps so he's in for a long wait. Tonight was different :) an apple chunk hit the floor. I was sad because I really wanted that apple. Mind you Bear is not a veggie eater and Liza would rather spit than eat anything not meat. Well Hobo was eating away on the apple and when he walked away next thing I knew the apple was gone and Liza had carted it off to the other room to sample it. It was like she didn't really want it but could not help herself. Ate on it and now I have no idea where it is. Could be all eaten LOL! Bear just watched the whole thing like "whatever"