Great photo of Buster and Molly
Posted by Michelle on Apr 25, 2003 in pups & other pets
In my house, if you get up from the couch
Posted by Michelle on Apr 11, 2003 in Michelle, pups & other pets
In my house, if you get up from your seat and disturb nap time, you come back to this:
They take your seat and look at you all pissed off 🙂
Our pups :)
Posted by Michelle on Mar 1, 2003 in pups & other pets
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As you might be able to tell, we love our pups!
We have two beagles, one six year old open marked tri-colored female named Miss Molly and a now eight month old black back male named Buster Brown. And now we have added Sam, a dachshund we found.
Michelle got Molly in 1995 when she was living with her roommate Michele Eager. Eager got two kittens, Cody and Grant the same week and the threesome grew up together.
When Michelle moved in with Jeff, Molly came along – little did Jeff know what he was getting into! Once we built the house, we had so much more room and thought Molly needed a pal.
Buster arrived the first week of January, 2001 – all of eight weeks old.
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Our six year old beagle Molly was thrilled to have a friend – ok that’s a lie! He’s a pest but we think deep down she loves him. And she has lost three pounds since he arrived, so that is great for her!
We added a fence to the house for them in May, so they can run wild outside. Molly likes to lay in the sun and relax but Buster wants to dig and play ball. We tried the frisbee thing but he seems to be more interested in chewing the frisbee than retrieving it. His new trick is when he wants to be playful, he runs under the house and hides whatever ball or frisbee that you are playing fetch with.
We put up a basketball hoop as well and Buster loves the basketball – as well as to try to grab your shorts when you are shooting.
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People think we are nuts but we had a wonderful artist, Keri Lynn Shosted, do a painting of the pups. We just LOVE it, here is the small version of it to the right –>
We took them on vacation to Nags Head in June, where Buster got in the ocean for the first time, found a huge fish head and escaped four times – of course Molly was content and mellow. Buster is now as big as Molly, skinnier but as long and maybe a bit taller – actually he’s two pounds more according to the vet. He may be the dominant one but she doesn’t take any crap from him.
Our newest pup, Sam, has been documented quite a bit already on here. On 3/19/02, we found a lost dachshund crossing the road near our home. No collar and as sweet as can be, I nearly jumped out of the car before Jeff had even stopped it. Check out the info we posted about him trying to find his owners.
Long story short, after many efforts to get the word out, no one claimed him – I’m sure now someone dumped him to fend for himself in the world. We fell in love with him and kept him despite his problems. I’m still angry someone dumped this wonderful dog but if they would to this to a dog, they clearly weren’t very good owners anyway. Read more about why we couldn’t give him up and kept him.
Sam wakes me up almost every morning – and I don’t even mind!
Photos: Library walls, Jeff, snow and the dogs
Posted by Michelle on Jan 12, 2003 in Jeff, pups & other pets
My four loves…
Posted by Michelle on Jun 30, 2002 in Humor, Jeff, pups & other pets
Jeff with the pups at Nags Head.
Smack, right on the lips!
FOUND DOG update, we’re keeping him!
Posted by Michelle on Apr 2, 2002 in pups & other pets
Jeff had the day off and we were heading to Home Depot to get supplies to plant rose bushes. About 2 minutes from home, a small dachshund ran across the road. We had to stop to check on him – I got down and called to him, he ran right up to me.
The warm, sweet little fellow was minus a collar. We drove around the neighborhood he was coming out of – it had to be someone’s baby who just snuck out. No luck.
We took him home and started trying to find his owners. We papered the area in, put ads in the paper and made calls to the SPCA & pound. But his owners never showed up.
He is a sweet boy, about 2-4 years old and a tremendous flirt. He started having seizures and was diagnosed with epilepsy – we suspect he was dumped because of it.
We thought the Cary law limiting homes to two dogs was still in effect but we found out it had been overturned.
We are in love with him as are the pups – well Buster definitely is in love and Molly is good with him. We got some nice calls from people offering to adopt him if his owners didn’t claim him but we think his wandering in to the road in front of us is karma, so we are keeping him. Why not – the law is gone and we have a huge house and great fenced in yard.
Jeff and our neighbor Jen separately said he looked like a ‘Sam’ and I found out later my grandmother named several dogs Sam, so that seems like more karma, so Sam is he.
The epilepsy is totally under control now that he’s on medicine – he takes a half pill twice a day and the meds cost the whopping $8 a month.
He’s a wily one, he’s snuck out twice the first week – he’s only 16 pounds and being a dachshund, he’s short. He snuck under the fence once and then out the front door once. We found him both times pretty quickly. Jeff has worked extensively on the fence and Sam-proved it.
I’m of course very tickled because a third dog has hastened our car buying plans – one trip to the vet with three dogs in the Saturn was enough! Hence we are now buying a used Jeep Cherokee. We’ve found the one we want, just need to negotiate the price down. So thanks Sam!
FOUND DOG: Do you recognize me
Posted by Michelle on Mar 19, 2002 in pups & other pets
Do you recognize me?
On 3/19, this dachshund was found crossing Holt Road near the Apex/Cary border. He appeared to be coming from the Charleston Village sub-division.
He is male, not fixed (‘intact’) and about 15 pounds. The vet says he is approximately 2-3 years old based on the tartar on his teeth. Mostly black with some tan on his lower legs and lower jaw – plus a bit on his chest.
The vet thinks he was outside 2-3 days before we found him. Some fleas, ticks and dry skin but basically ok otherwise
He is sweet as can be! Warm, cuddly and kind. No accidents inside either. Gets along really well with our two beagles. Slept on a bed but slept in the crate just fine too.
We are going to keep him as long as we can, he won’t go to the pound. If no one claims him in two weeks, we’ll try to find a new home for him. We are already smitten with him but we can’t keep three dogs under Cary law.
Email michelle@hillison.com if you know this dog!
We have posted a flyer all over the area, lost dog flyer in pdf format. Please print this and give it to any dachshund groups you know of or show it to anyone you know has a lost dog.
Update: We kept him 🙂
Buster and Molly trying on their Halloween costumes
Posted by Michelle on Oct 30, 2001 in pups & other pets
Or as we call it, Dog don’t like Halloween outfits.
Buster & Molly at Nags Head
Posted by Michelle on Jun 1, 2001 in pups & other pets
The pups at the beach!
