How to catch a puggle

How to catch a puggle.

I had made plans with Liz, two of her friends and Emma to go to the mall today. Not my favorite place to go in the world, but I dealt with it.

We made plans to leave here at 3:30 because I am NOT a morning or early afternoon sort of person. 

Chels and Kelby arrive here as we are all going to go together in my van. Sophie and Sarah are all ready to go with their Dad, when Lilly gets loose. Now normally it’s not a problem when she gets loose. She runs to the machine shed then comes right back to the house and happily comes inside. 

But not today! Oh no, today she decided to run around the yard and the pasture like a puppy on crack.   I was already in a bad mood from getting into an argument with Brian about something and this was just not making things any better.

So Lilly is running around. Chels and Emma are in one part of the yard and Kelby and Liz are out in the pasture trying to catch her. On a side note, I gotta give Kelby props for not only going out in the snow/ice in high heeled boots but for managing to not fall.

At this point I’m watching from the window and the 4 girls are just not able to catch her. So I thought to myself….self…Lilly really loves to play with Guess. If I put Guess on her leash and walk her to the pasture then maybe Lilly will come over and we can grab her. 

So I put on my coat and mittens, get Guess hooked up to the leash and head outside. Guess see’s Lilly running around like a fool and instantly wants to run too.  There is a bunch of snow and ice and this dog is strong.  But I managed to keep a hold of her.  We step into the pasture in time to see Liz grabbing a hold of Lilly’s fat rolls and trying to pull her towards her.  Lilly managed to escape before Liz could get a really good grip on her.  The look on Liz’s face was funny so I giggled. Guess took that exact moment of my giggling to use a burst of energy and I lost my grip on her.

So here is Guess running after Lilly in the cow pasture. But she didn’t like the fact that the leash was trailing behind her so she stopped, picked up the leash with her mouth and then continued on with her run.  It looked like she was running herself with the leash in her mouth like that.

I was laughing so hard by this point it was unreal, well we were all laughing.  Guess kept tackling Lilly and wore her out in a matter of minutes and Liz was able to grab on to Lilly with no problems and get her in the house. But then we had another problem.  Guess was now on the loose and had no intentions of giving up her freedom any time soon.

Thank goodness Brian hadn’t left with the girls yet.  Guess  has always gone to him when he calls her.  So I asked Brian to please go over and call for Guess, which he did and she came right to him. She’s such a trader I tell you! LOL!!!!

So finally, Sophie and Sarah are with Brian going on about their business and the girls and I are ready for our jaunt to the mall.

The trip to the mall will be another blog as that alone was an adventure!