Odin and last Friday

So I haven't written much about Odie as of late, but he is still here and still very much the baby even with the rescued puppy and Baby Elizabeth around. He just claimed them as his (this means the other dogs are not allowed to go near them) and then is still determined to be the baby of the house. He's very vocal about it.

Some back ground then on Odin,

he's a hunter and catches birds out of the air.

he catches grass hoppers and eats them,

he loves to chase the cats.

he fetches naturally with out being taught,

he loves to go in the truck and will stay in there for how ever long you are going (even to the detriment of his health we have to physically remove him in the heat)

he jumps like a deer.

he talks and actually tells you no when he doesn't want to do something
he's one of the most beautiful dogs I have ever seen.

he has one blue eye and one blue and brown eye

He's very intelligent (almost to intelligent for his own good)

that being said

Odin can never be let of leash without being in an enclosed area as if something comes by that sets of his hunting instinct he is gone and he will not come back.

We do not have a fenced yard so when Odin was 7 months old we purchased an electronic fence with a collar and he has done very well with is as long as we remember to turn it on.

Now to Friday Odin has been so good with his collar (we had actually turned the setting down on his collar) that we have become quite complacent about him being outside without being watched every minute.

Now the other part of the puzzle is we have a herd of deer who all summer have been wondering through our property. Ever since the kids started the fire in the gulch in front of our house the grass that's has grown there is very tall and very green and the deer love it so much there willing to cross through Odins territory to get to it.

On Friday morning Odin had been out all morning and I had checked on him from time to time but at 9;30 when i went out he was gone! now he has gotten away before (chasing the deer is just to much for him) but he has come back with in just a small amount of time

On this particular day I called and called and waited and no Odie Finally by 10:30 I called Mitch and he came home and we looked and looked and no Odie anywhere.

I was a little freaked, usually when he hears the 01 Dodge he comes running, we even drove it up and down the gulch and that didn't bring him back. I called the dog catcher to see if maybe she had picked him up and he was in Jail, and she hadn't seen him.

So we spent the next 3 hours looking everywhere. needless to say we couldn't find him.

On our property the gulch runs to west of us and has running water in it year around lots of grasses and vegetation and there are a all kinds of wildlife. We have even had beavers come up and chew the trees.

It runs for probably 60 miles and only in a few places does the road run along it so he actually could of been anywhere for 60 miles. My biggest worry was somebody would shoot him because he looks mean and that's what people do around here to dogs running wild.

Needless to say he did finally come back on his own, and now he is grounded. We have turned up his collar and he has to be watched a lot more closely at least until the deer move to their next spot.

Its a snow day

Odin digging his bones out of the snow
(these aren't very clear, they were taken through the glass and it was snowing)



Today was a snow day!
No they didn't cancel school (thank god) and no they didn't shut down all government business. I just called in sick. Due to snow. By the time I ventured out of the house I was really glad I had, the roads sucked, What I want to know is what the hell the snowplow drivers are doing just driving around? They aren't plowing snow, nor are they sanding the roads, there just driving around. Maybe there afraid they will run out of roads to clean and have to go home early or something.
Its still snowing, we have had about 7 inches so far and we are expecting 3 to 5 more tonight.
I did make it to the grocery store and stocked up on a few groceries just in case it never stops and we are snowed in, haha (that should only happen during the week so we can't go to work)
I hope it keeps snowing for days and days and days, will give me every reason to sit around in my jammies and paint or something!

exercise for Odin.

ASLEEP AT LAST (YES THATS MY BED)

So as you know from yesterday Odin has been a little crazy from, one lack of exercise and two a dramatic change in his routine, So last night I had a bright idea, I thought, why not put Odin on the treadmill and give him a walk, how hard could it be right? I think I would of exuded less energy in just getting dressed and taking him for a walk. See although he looks like a dog in many ways he is still very much a puppy and everything scares him, new noises, a bag blowing in the bushes that sort of thing, oh and apparently the sound that the treadmill itself makes. So as long as the treadmill was off he was like ok moms sitting on this thing I'll get my two front feet on it, or as he likes to do his back two feet and butt on it but never the whole dog at one time and the whole time he's doing this he's biting my arm, jumping over me and the treadmill and in general having a good time ( me on the floor to him means play time) so as I think I am finally going to get him on the darn thing my hubby hits the run button and on comes the treadmill sliding me onto the floor and sending Odin into a panic, which means alot of Jumping (not on the treadmill) from the bed to the floor, alot of barking, whining, and talking on his part and no way after that could I of got him near it, I laughed so hard I had no energy left to even try, so I gave up for the night, After all of this him and I were exhausted and crawled into bed him for a nap me for some quiet time.

I am going to try the treadmill thing again just next time will use his halter and leash.