Dog Days of Summer IV

This is the life...

Dog Days of Summer III

When it's cold and rainy outside, I like to curl up and take a nap on the couch...

Happy Birthday Dad!!!

Happy Birthday dad!!! love your Dixie-girl!

Dog Days of Summer II

I love to curl up in my porch chair... I'm so relaxed... sometimes a cool breeze comes when the sun goes down...

Happy Birthday Mom!!!

Happy Birthday mom!!!  love Dixie 

Coon Huntress

I am a treeing Walker coonhound... I was trained to hunt raccoons... at night.  I haven't hunted since moving to Maine February of 2010.  I haven't scented any either... until this summer.  There's been a raccoon across the street in the neighbor's garden... and he's come around on Wednesday nights a couple of times because it's trash collection day. 

Last night he was around - I could smell him!  I was restless and kept trying to get my folks to take me out... but all they'd let me do was go to the backyard to pee.  I humored them and peed but I wanted to go look for that coon - chase him a bit before I got him up a tree!

I howled and kept my folks awake all night!  My poor dad had to get up at 3:30 to go to work... but I needed to catch that raccoon! 

I did this to my folks a couple of weeks ago and did the same thing to my auntie in July.  Now they know the raccoon was around!  Dad suspected it was a raccoon because when he took me out at 1 a.m. this morning, I was pointing.  He told my mom, and mom saw the poor little fella on the side of the road across the street early this afternoon - he was hit by a car. 

I didn't get to run after him... I'm sad about that.  And there will be peace for my folks for a while... unless there are more...

Rhinestone Sunglasses

My mom and dad got me a new pair of sunglasses... not just any sunglasses either - rhinestone studded ones with big round lenses like my idol Elton would wear!!!