Our dog Penny was found without a collar in an April snowstorm 7 1/2 years ago. It was evident she had just given birth to puppies. She ended up at the county shelter where I was a volunteer. No owner was looking for a beagle mother. She was not ill or abused or starving or injured, just lost (beagles are not obedient labradors, they have to be fenced and leashed)---and I have always hoped her story went like this: she had her puppies in a nice family's house, and one day saw a squirrel and took off and ran 100 miles, through one county to another... and thus to the shelter and us.
I would have loved to see her puppies. It makes a GREAT subject for a sculptor, don't you think?
(new sculpture by Gary Rith)
Speaking of beagle puppies....
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7 comments:
So glad to know how you and Penny got together...and I really enjoyed puppy beagle! Sculpture is a real winner!
All puppies are cute, especially beagle puppies. Good advice about them being leashed or fenced. They will follow their noses to the ends of the earth.
I love the Penny story! It made me think of Rafiki. He was a found puppy. I think Penny's pups were safely born and adopted too. Silly Penny chasing squirrels!
I am really enjoying your wall sculptures --I think some of these may be going on my Christmas gift list!
Today at a work meeting, one of my colleagues was cuddling a several-day old kitten. She raises and shows Main Coon cats, and the mom had rejected this one. There is nothing in the world quite as wonderful as kittens and puppies :-)
I had no idea that Penny was also a Mama. Perhaps she decided those little puppies were too much work and decided on a life of fun?? LOL.
I do like your scenario though. Glad she ended up with YOU!
Sweet Penny! Sweet Gary for taking her in. Love the puppy howl. Roooooo Roooooo!
Love the puppy howl!
I can make my dogs wag their tails by saying "thump thump thump" which is the sound their wagging makes against the couch.
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