Stanley the galumphagus.

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dog, growth, postaday2015, Stanley

   
 
We still can’t get over how Stanley keeps increasing in size, almost on a daily basis, it is so weird. His breed develops so differently from all of the others we have had over the years. Black Lab, Golden Retrievers, German Shepard, Beagle, Jack Russell and Pitbull, all have sprouted more or less in the same fashion, slowly over the course of a few months. While Stanley here, grows by starts and fits on a weekly basis. He is almost 5 months old, January 5th will be his 5 month old birthday, I can’t believe it, sometimes it is difficult to remember Stanley is still a baby.

He is very cute, our big galumphagus.

We get to see Jack tomorrow; hooray!

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dog, Jack, pets, postaday2014

We both know that Jack is in great hands at home with both of our children watching over him, but we miss him horribly. Our human children have cell phones and text messaging to communicate with us, but Jack doesn’t have those luxuries and he doesn’t like to Skype. lol. During the days that I am away from him, I look at funny dog videos on youtube or the Huffington Post, they make me laugh, but it isn’t the same as cuddling with Jack.

These two pictures are how it is some of the time when we go on road trips; Jack sitting on his Papa’s lap looking at me while I drive us to wherever. He is a good travel companion, aside from being so finicky about where he goes to the bathroom and his food preferences. We got him back on track with his intestinal problems and that is such a relief.

We can’t wait until we get back home tomorrow; not only to see our children, but to see Jack and have him sit on his favorite piece of furniture; my lap.

Jack lost and found

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chipmunks, dog, escape, Jack Russel, leash, postaday2012

Just a few days ago, I wrote about what I wish my little Jack would understand completely; either complete house training or to never run away if off leash. Today as it so happens, when we got back home from being at my mother’s overnight, both Rex and Jack were overjoyed at seeing us and I immediately took both of them for a nice walk in the park next to our house. When we got back it was time for their dinner which they both devoured. Meanwhile, the car was being unpacked, the garage door was open and in the midst of all of us putting things away, going in and out of the garage, the dogs were settled in the living room where my hubby and I eventually sat down to enjoy some t.v. At one point, my hubby got up to go to the kitchen and he noticed that the side door leading the the garage was open. I know this because my hubby called out to me and I couldn’t understand what he was saying so I got up to see what he was talking about. The words that I couldn’t decipher were “is Jack with you?”. That is when I kicked into action because our little wily Jack Russell knows how to open the screen door to the garage which was open to the driveway. Excellent opportunity for the little scamp to escape. Which he did, the problem was we weren’t sure exactly how long Jack had been gone for. It could have been five minutes or twenty minutes, I got his leash and with a sinking stomach went to go look for our baby. There is traffic on our road and I don’t know how savvy Jack would be crossing the road or if he would cross the road at all. I got out of the house and started to walk down the driveway and out of the corner of my eye I see a tail wagging near our front wall. I walk over to the wagging tail and ask Jack “are you looking for chipmunks Jack?” the tail starts wagging even faster and I put the leash on. We get into the house and my hubby picks up Jack praising him for hunting chipmunk and coming home with Maman. Actually it was my hubby who planted the chipmunk hunting idea in Jack’s mind, so Jack was only following his Papa’s direction. I was so relieved finding our little Jack, he has been a gift to us and to Rex. I am also heartened by the fact that Jack wasn’t interested in leaving our property,he was intent on hunting within our parameters. Who knows, maybe the communication with Jack is working?