It took a while, but Ellwood was ever eager to please her and he won her over. She still has her moments. Hope, followed by sadness when we go somewhere she'd been with Silas, but then again, we all do. Ellwood is a silver/gray Briard cross, and a bit smaller than tatanka, but very wiry and fast.
When he runs, his bouncing run is like a cheetah, and faaaaast! We got Ellwood as an adult, and the shelter said he had been transferred down from a Prince George shelter. They cautioned us that he had some quirks, and would require a lot of love. They were so right! Oh my Ellwood! He is scared of the sound of birds, driving in cars, farting sounds, and when running with the other dogs, will bark inanely and circle them with his speed, with an idiotic, "look at me" look on his hairy mug, while his siblings try to put up with this annoyance politely. He will talk at you with a wide variety of sounds, and get so exasperated when you don't get it. He used to bolt at every opportunity and come back an hour late from God knows where, until we discovered that letting him run long and hard with the car on a deactivated no exit road seemed to satisfy his bolting urge. Dogs love running hard and fast, and we have discovered all our dogs love car -running. We moved from Vancouver Island in 2005 to the dry interior of the Cariboo, and soon met our boy Kodi.
Kodi is a tan short hair mid size dog with the body of a doggy Adonis. He's a swarthy sweetheart, with the heart of an angel. He's the only dog we have that ever growls at the cats, and then they just rub up on him even more...he's their favorite! grrrr. He's like a shadow, the way he is always at our sides. He was a local dog from the new neighbourhood, but the owners had their own crisis's to deal with, and we gratefully adopted him from them
Our prayers were asnwered. Our little trifecta, was complete. Tatanka had a second fan in her fan club, and Kodi immediately took it upon himself to massage her from top to bottom thoroughly much like one would eat a corn cob. When he stops chewing, Tatonka stamps her foot and snorts, and Kodi gets back work.
The 2 boys are the barkiest, but luckily, since we're in bear and cougar country, the neighbors don't mind, and the dogs get to shout a little. (Boys!) Tatonka only joins in with her own deep "woof" if it's something serious. And when Tatonka woofs, everyone listens.
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