after the storm last week that devastated much of the eastern coast and did not do much damage to our region, it was a blessing to know that we had been spared. my friend and i did not miss a day of dog-walking. our route, during hunting season, has changed to a more familiar and populated area. my goldendoodle and her briard play the most amazing game. bear, the briard, is a french herding dog and bodie, my doodle, looks for all intents and purposes, like a very fast floppy-eared sheep. bear has a job to do and the “sheep” does his very best to keep him from doing that job. at all! it makes for an interesting hour long walk, to say the least. on wednesday, after we walked and bear’s job was thwarted by a squirrelly doodle, we returned home exhausted. i was in the kitchen when my dog, wet from his swim in the lake, started to growl, something he never does. i looked out our front door and saw six teenage ducks wandering around on the porch. immediately, i closed the inside door to keep my “boy” from totally losing it. then i went out the back door and quietly walked to the side of the house to watch our visitors. they were perfectly content to saunter from one side of the porch to the other, snubbing their proverbial “noses” at my doodle who was having a terrible time of it, being completely left out of the excitement and the visit. you can’t readily reason with any teenager, especially teen age ducks, so i figured i’d leave them alone and at some point they would decide that they had visited long enough and would move on. that did eventually happen, but not before four of them left a “bit of themselves” on the porch. later, when bodie went outside to sniff around, he was totally engrossed with the amazing smells on the porch floor. …i got a brush, some disinfectant and water and went to work. so much for the visitors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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