Katie Updates

We love our dog Katie. she has gone from being an absolute terrible dog who ate everything in sight to a exact duplicate of Murphy. she has her I wanna play personality but she is obedient and loyal like My best friend Murphy.

When she was a pup she took great satisfaction in eating anything and everything. she ate most of the interior of my truck, she ate plastic bags, I know this from her poop. it got so bad we had to muzzle her but she figured that out to. One day i stopped for the 5 dollar pizza at little caesars brought it back to the truck, put it on the dash and then went to get a slush. when I got back, I lifted the lid for a piece of pizza and the toppings were completely gone. somehow through her muzzle she had sucked the pepporoni and cheese off the crust. well I had to buy another pizza and I didn't share a bit with her. she's also a master at the little child walk by manuever. she spots the goods, cookie or icecream, walks by nonchalantly and with a quick but gentle swipe removes the food item from the childs hand and continues her walk. she specifically likes children that are about 2 - 4 years old. Last night I was laying on the couch and she was laying on top of me sleeping and suddenly she woke up and as she went to crawl off me she puked her one hour in the stomach dogfood on the basement carpet. I hate cleaning up puke of any kind and considered for a second waiting till deb got home but the smell was to much, I even thought I could get her to re-eat it but she wasn't buying into it in the least so I was left on my own to swab the deck. She hasn't been feeling that good lately lethargic and not alot of energy to play even her favorite game tug-o-war. She still wanted a piece of pizza after the fact though. She has got to be the hardest "playing" dog I have ever seen. everything is a game. she even has a toybox that she draws from when company comes over. she wants them to see everything she has. A great thing about her is she never wrecked her toys, she would chew my toys and stuff when she was a pup but hers are still in pristine condition.

She loves the water, well she is a retreiver, and when we go fishing, her job is swim around the lake and bring back every flaoting twig or log or tree she can find and place it in no apparent order on the beach. it is funny when you go down from camp and see what she has been up to. We go often to the river at devon or wizard lake and I toss half full pop bottles as far as i can for her to retrieve. she got great eyes and has mastered swimming quite well. I remember her first attempts with her front paws coming completely out of the water and splashing everything within 10 feet of her, not very efficient. but she now has great speed and extreme focus. it is a pleasure to watch.