Then Scott offered me to take Brenna for a walk around the gas station. I thought Brenna would freak out if I take her away from her dad, so Michelle walked with me. Brenna still kept pulling on the leash trying to get back to Scott during the 5-minute walk, but it was really nice walking Brenna again. Overall a great visit, and I'm already missing Brenna again.
�We made it safe and very uneventful and Brenna is having QUITE a time.�
�So here's the story about yesterday's morning walk. Brenna and I were heading up one of the streets near where we are staying when I spotted a really large bird on the wire near us. Then I spotted a baby squirrel in our [path ahead of us and started wrapping the leash tighter on my wrist because Brenna LOVES to chase squirrels and birds! Funny thin is, I don't really know what she'd do if she ever caught one! I figure she would probably just bite it in the middle to see if it squeaked like her toy squirrel!!! Back to the tale... so as we neared the squirrel, I saw the very large bird swoop down to get the baby squirrel! Mind you, this was all happening only about 20 feet in front of us. The baby squirrel by sheer accident crawled under a bush without even noticing he was prey and prevented the falcon from getting it. So now this very large falcon is hopping on back and forth in front of this bush to try to get his breakfast (you could distinctly hear his very sharp talons scratching on the pavement!), meanwhile we are still walking and getting closer and this bird is completely oblivious to Brenna and I because all it saw was breakfast! Finally the bird looked up at me and we were staring eye to eye! We were only 5 feet from this by now, and I actually for a brief moment was worried that this bird might think Brenna was a better breakfast, lunch and dinner!
But the bird flew off, which then made Brenna keenly aware of the squirrel still under the bush in front of her nose. She tried to go after it, but I kept her going and she was never aware that she was in the sights of a bird, instead of a bird being in her sights!�
�Brenna's passed out at the moment from all the day's fun.�
�Brenna made another new friend yesterday on our morning walk. A guy was out seeding his lawn and not paying attention while his boxer dog was paying attention to us and ran up to us. Brenna greeted the dog very friendly and they both just sniffed each others behinds while the owner noticed and ran over and got her. The boxer was a female (named Dixie) and obviously a puppy, as it was exactly the same size in height and length as Brenna. Fortunately it had a very playful disposition, and I believe that had the owner not came over and retrieved the dog, Brenna and Dixie would have soon been chasing each other around!
I was VERY proud of her and let her know the rest of the day how proud we were of her being so good with Dixie!
Things are going very well, and we have extended our stay a few more days. We presently planning on returning home Thursday. Brenna got to walk the Henderson Beach Park Nature Trail yesterday and had a huge smile plastered on her face for hours after that! I plan on spreading her ashes when she dies in that park because she just loves it SOOOOO much!�
Monday, October 8, 2007
�You would be so proud of our girl! This morning two loose Italian Greyhounds ran up to her in one of the parks we walk in during our morning walk and she played with both of them! The owner was in the park as well, but the dogs were off leash. On of the dogs (named Vidalia, like the onion) had been kenneled for the past 5 years and had zero social skills, the master told me. Vidalia barked and barked at Brenna, and it didn't phase Brenna at all. Vidalia is also black in color. So that was good that she didn't attack Vidalia as she would have in days past! The other one was white and named Sophie (a good Italian name) and was timid, but playful. Brenna ran and pounced around with Sophie, all the while Vidalia ran around the two barking non-stop.
I hope we run into these two again because Brenna really enjoyed it and it was very good for her social skills to have a dog barking at her and she keeping her play mode.
Thought I'd share real quick! Wish I had the camera to get a picture of them together, though!�
Sunday, October 14, 2007
�We got back home Thursday evening from a fantastic time in Florida! As you can see by the sunset pictures taken from the beach at a restaurant called "The Back Porch", the weather was perfect like this nearly every day of the eleven days we were there.�
