Maine Millers

Why does Scout feel the need to get up at the crack of dawn?  He doesn’t seem to want to sleep past 7:30, and if there is the rare day he does I cannot.

We have a snow and ice eater here.  I think Scout cannot go outside without having one or the other in his mouth.  He thinks they are a wonderful treat and just picks up clumps of snow everywhere and either carries them for a while or just plain eats them.  Tonight on one of our trips outside he found a real hard chunk of ice and carried it around the yard.  Then I had him drop it so we could go inside.  On the next trip out he remembered where he dropped it in a yard of snow and proceded to lie down and gnaw on it again.  He is just wierd.

Although the Australian Shepehrd is a North American Breed and not from Australia, the way Scout was acting last night you would think Native American.  He was ripping Birch Bark from the trees and playing with the resulting pieces.  Sometimes you just have to laugh at him.

As I am sitting eating this morning I look out of the corner of my eye and he is at it again 🙁

Scout is NOT a two legged being and should always have four on the floor, you tell him… As I look over toward the counter there he is trying to get a bowl that had some ice cream in it from last night. I know my fault for not washing the dishes yet but that was for after breakfast. Anyway crash it goes to the floor and shatters all over the place. He is fine and all is cleaned up but hopefully it scared the snot out of him for good, na I doubt it 🙁

I guess it’s a good sign when you take obedience classes and the last instructor you had is in your current class and comments on the improvements over the last few weeks.  Three people told us that last night.  Persistence pays off.