Feb 27, 2010

Tell about the best pet you ever had.

Pee Wee was always my best friend and my best pet. A lucky little dog that survived being poisoned when just a pup and dad was able to feed her the lard or whatever it was that he gave that made her survive the poison. Anyway she was always with me when I did chores and always with me when I was walking down to get the cows or riding our horses Blue or Beauty to get them. She was also always to the side of me under the cow licking up milk that I would squirt from the cow onto the cement for her. One year she came up missing for several days and we thought that she had been killed or poisoned. Well she showed up early one morning walking on three legs and a stub. She had been caught in a trap and had to chew her foot off to be able to come home. Dad picked her up and took her to the vet in Roosevelt where he removed the rest of the leg up to the shoulder. She lived for a lot of years after that and was able to still keep up with me on three legs. She loved to climb the haystack, which was made from round bales of hay, and sit on the top watching the traffic over three miles across the valley. She was a good friend. Pee Wee finally had one set of pups when I was in High School. She had two that I remember Pedro and Sparky and they were both very cute pups. I don’t know when Pee Wee died but I think it was while I was on my mission or at college. She had been my friend from early in my childhood until after I had left home.