Dog Gone…

For those of you who have met Mae Lynn Mize and Scooby Doo Mize you know they are a handful.  Scooby is an incessant barker and thinks it’s his job to bark at anyone who comes in the house.  He just won’t let up either.  He just gets so protective of us, especially me.  Mae has no social skills and likes to jump on people to say hi.

Erin has been scared of Mae for a while.  My plan to have her have a dog backfired because Mae is so over zealous.  But, we’ve rounded a corner.  In the past, we’ve left the dogs locked up when Erin is out.  She tends to run a skip everywhere she goes instead of walking and Mae takes that as an invitation to jump along with her.  Lately Erin has been asking to have them out.  So, we leave them out of the kennel for a while and they roam the house.  Mostly Mae cleans up anything under the table that Erin has recently eaten.  Scooby isn’t fast enough so he usually misses out.

Scooby is also obsessed with the squirrels in the backyard.  Tommy feeds them so we have some really big squirrels.  They eat the dried corn on the cob off the feeders.  The dogs eat what they drop, but 24/7 Scooby runs the perimeter of the yard making sure they don’t come down into the yard.  He stares at the trees and barks when they aren’t even out there.  He’s really really into the hunt.  He will run the perimeter for hours if I let him.  I don’t leave them out that long, but he’s never ready to come in.

With that being said, I can’t really leave them out of the kennel too much when I’m here working either.  Scooby stands at the window by the backdoor and does this high pitch scream like whine to go out and chase the squirrels.  Mae will go with him and run along beside him but she has no interest in catching the squirrels.  I can’t talk on the phone with the dogs going nuts in the house.

But, all in all I do love my dogs.  Tommy still cannot stand them, but Erin is coming around and loves them now too.  Maybe one day we’ll learn so social skills and they can stay out when we have company.  But for now, we’ll keep them under wraps.