Louie In The Yard

Louie loves being in the yard, almost as much as he loves laying in bed. When we set him loose, on the grass, and he's done racing his 40 laps around the flagpole, he finds all the sticks on the lawn and chews them into tiny little bits. In the two and a half weeks we've had him, our yard is now completely stick free. We might find a twig here and there, but if the chihuahua/greyhound finds it before us, forget it.

Louie and I have almost perfected fetch: it's called throw. On the rare occasion I can find a piece of wood worthy of tossing, he dances around in circles like a circus dog on his back feet, going crazy until I throw it. Once I toss it, he grabs it and runs to the far corner of the yard and turns it into mulch. Okay, we've got half of the equation down. We just need a little more work on the bringing it back part.

When there are no more sticks to munch, he turns to Robin's weeding pile. As she putters in the yard, pulling up roots and putting them into piles, Louie is on the prowl. He snatches the weeds stealthily and runs off to tear them up in the back corner of the yard. The above pictures come from Robin picking Lilacs from the garden.

AKA: Landscaping Louie