Glacier
10-26-2004, 10:47 PM
I didn't mean to be mean, but apparently I was. Mac, my hound cross foster dogger, is an escape artist. It takes a great fence to hold Mac in. In the last wind storm, the fence in his pen got mangled. It's back up and it's working for Chase and Ozzy, but it's not Mac-proof by a long shot yet and won't be until spring. The ground is too frozen to rebury the bottom right now. So Mac has been in the older pen, which is bigger and has more stuff in it, with Raven, Founder, Antare and Franklin. Tonight I opened the gate and let them all run around in the big yard with me for a couple hours.
Poor Mac ran straight to the gate to Ozzy's pen--risking life and limb by crossing through Kayleigh's space as he did so. Then he just sat by the gate until I came down and let him in. He immediately ran to his brother and started playbowing and licking his face. I felt like the biggest meanie!
He hadn't acted upset at all in the other pen. If I'd known he was missing Ozzy so much, I would have moved him sooner or moved Ozzy. The shelter asked me a few weeks ago if they could be adopted separately. Now I will have to tell them no way, they are a package deal--not that anyone has been interested. So far the fence is keeping Mac in, but I suspect that's just because he wants to be with Ozzy.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v38/Glacier1998/Dogs/drinking.jpg
My little duo on their first day here in June.
Poor Mac ran straight to the gate to Ozzy's pen--risking life and limb by crossing through Kayleigh's space as he did so. Then he just sat by the gate until I came down and let him in. He immediately ran to his brother and started playbowing and licking his face. I felt like the biggest meanie!
He hadn't acted upset at all in the other pen. If I'd known he was missing Ozzy so much, I would have moved him sooner or moved Ozzy. The shelter asked me a few weeks ago if they could be adopted separately. Now I will have to tell them no way, they are a package deal--not that anyone has been interested. So far the fence is keeping Mac in, but I suspect that's just because he wants to be with Ozzy.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v38/Glacier1998/Dogs/drinking.jpg
My little duo on their first day here in June.