It might be fun to share some of our own pet’s little stunts.
Let me tell you Lottie’s story. She pulled several really great stunts in the years we had her.
Lottie was our original English Bulldog. She was an old dog when we got her, her previous owner figured she was done with having pups, but she did fool them and actually had a litter for us. Unlike many bulldogs, Lottie was an excellent mother dog. She raised her own 3 pups and even fostered two Bullmastiff pups to boot. Bulldogs are notorious for mashing their pups, laying one them and suffocating them, or just in general not taking care of them. But not Lottie. She would however, scare the daylights out of us every time she went back to her pups after being outside for a potty break. She would go to her pups, nose around all 5 of them, seeing where they were, she sometimes pushed them around a bit with her nose until she got them all where she wanted them, and then BOOM! She would jerk all 4 feet up in the air and just crash down amongst them. I would absolutely freak out, knowing full well she surly must of mashed at least half of them, but she never not one time ever hurt one. It was really amazing to see.
Now, as I have mentioned, Lottie was an old dog. At about 10-11 years of age, which truly is ancient for a Bulldog, she certainly had her share of infirmities. Her eyesight was not the best in the world, and she moved with the slowest walk you ever saw. Those splayed out bulldog elbows and the turned in toes made her walk extremely slow. It would sometimes take her half an hour to shuffle back and forth from the house to the kennel, even though it was only a few hundred yards.
One day the hubby and I came home from a puppy selling trip. On the way back we had stopped at a roadside store that had lots of cool concrete statues. I found a pair of concrete Terrier statues that I thought would look really great out at the end of our driveway, so I had bought them, and when we got home and were unloading the car, I had to move one of them out to get to some other stuff. I just set it on the ground a little way away from the car. A short time later, Lottie came waddling up from the kennel to see what we were up to. She was retired by then and had the run of the place. When she got about 10 feet from the concrete dog, she just froze for a second. Her hair bristled up, and she perked up, and then suddenly, out of the blue, she just attacked the statue, going straight for it’s tail. She chomped right down on that hard concrete tail! Failing to get a response from the statue, and I suppose suddenly realizing the error of her ways, she backed off, took a good, though rather surprised look at it, and then you could practicly her hear go Hummph, and walked away looking totally disgusted, and quite frankly, embarrassed by her case of mistaken identity. I’m pretty sure she knew we were standing there laughing our butts off at her too.
Lottie’s other surprise for us came one day when our cattle got out. We had a big, and I do mean BIG Charloais bull we were raising to butcher. Since we are not fans of “baby beef” we let him get really huge, he was pretty close to 1600lbs.
Now, as I have already mentioned, Lottie was a really slow mover. She never went anywhere in a hurry. She barely seemed to even be able to move. The hired man used to laugh at her all the time as she shuffled around the yard. But then she saw the bull. And I swear, it looked like that old dog got shot out of a cannon! She charged that bull, dead run, flat out, she seemed to fly across the yard after him! You could hear her teeth popping on his heels all the way across the yard. Bull apparently heard it too, because he bolted out of there like the devil himself was after him. That dog scared that huge bull to death, he was more than happy to head back out to the pasture, we barely got the gate open in time for him to save himself from the killer antique bulldog! But the shear look of total shock on the hired mans face was the real kicker. He just stood there with his mouth hanging open, not believing what he had just witnessed.
