"Mama's Boy"

Dave has decided that Buck is a Mama's boy. When Dave comes home from work now, he says Buck almost looks disappointed if I'm not there too. When I'm there, I sometimes sit on the stairs, and Buck always (without fail!) takes that as an invitation and takes his "perch" on my lap. (He thinks he's still a tiny little puppy...he's a lap dog) Dave has told me that when I'm not there, Buck will go and sit on the steps and whine, and even if he goes over and sits with him, Buck turns away from him and continues to whine. After I leave, he'll usually sit at the door waiting for me to come back, and there have been times when I've gone over and he's been laying in front of the door waiting. Not only this, but if he hears my voice when Dave's on the phone with me, he goes nuts, and when Dave tells him I'm not coming over, he goes and lays down in the corner. Dave has now started calling him my dog, and we're starting to wonder if this "custody" thing should be more "joint" than it already is. ;)

Happy Puppy

Buck was quite ecstatic the other day when I headed over to Dave's even tho he wasn't home from work yet to spend some quality "Mommy" time with him. We had just had warm weather, complete with rain, which created some pretty icy conditions. Buck had a great time running around, even though he couldn't figure out why he kept slipping, nor why he couldn't find the ice chunks I threw for him to fetch. :)

Happy Cheerios Girl!

Just sharing some cute pics of Anna eating her Cheerios at our family birthday party for Dad this past weekend. She is quite the cutie! :)

Daddy to the rescue!

On New Years Eve, Dave had quite the encounter in the woods and we almost lost Buck in the process. He had gone out in the woods on his property out back of his house to check the snares he had set for rabbit, and had taken Buck with him. On the way back, Dave heard a snowmachine coming up the trail behind them, so he stepped off the trail and into some brush. Buck went in the other direction, but still off the trail, into the trees. When the snowmachine came over the hill, the guy went off the trail and started after Buck, who took off running. The guy was obviously trying to run him down as he went OFF the trail to do so, and came within two feet of Buck at one point. Buck ended up running in a big circle and came back around towards Dave, who had not yet been seen by the guy on the snowmachine. Dave, in his rightful fatherly fury, ran out and clotheslined the guy, knocking him off his sled, and sending the sled into a tree, cracking the front of it. The other guy was obviously upset that Dave had crashed his sled, and started threatening to kill Dave, to which Dave promptly responded that he was on his property and then proceeded to beat him up to remind him not to come back. Neither of us can figure out why this complete idiot was trying to run down a puppy. Speaking of which, Buck was the perfect angel and sat right behind Dave, face peeking out from behind his legs, during the entire confrontation, and was very well behaved the rest of the night. Oddly enough, he seems much more appreciative of us as his loving protecting "parents" now...well, as much as a puppy can. :) We're just glad he's still alive!