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"Be tolerant of THE SKIPPER who disagrees with you... The Schipperke has a right to his Ridiculous Opinion." Our 'Skipper' A New Mexican Schipnic
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Thursday, September 27, 2001
Today we re-inforced the front-yard boundaries on
our property. "To keep out EVIL TERRORISTS?" you ask. No, to keep the climb-the-huge-wall dog from frequent neighborhood excursions. It is astounding how AIR JORDAN has come out of retirement this week, just as our very own AIR JORDAN has sized up the wall situation and added climbing to his flying skills. Thursday, September 20, 2001
This morning, brought one of those Schipperke PTSD
flashbacks to mind. I recalled the day The Divine Miss Melanie leaped from our truck and merrily bounded off into bear country in Yellowstone Park on our way home from SRY2K in Montana. She ran and ran, oblivious to calls or her surroundings. Then, just as suddenly, she stopped and sat there. "I'm ready to be picked up now. Get me and take me to my new home in the Land of Enchantment." Today, the front gate opens for a second on our street and Jordan heads out on a mission from the Schipperke Higher Power. He crosses the street, rapidly goes straight up the next street, then into an alley and beyond with me calmly-but-rapidly in pursuit. Jordan is totally oblivious to my calls; he is simply on his "mission." He goes in and out several yards, says Howdy to several neighbor dogs, and then, after we have wandered, or rather "bee-lined" four blocks away from SkippertownUSA, he decides that all is well and comes up to me to be carried home. We turn and greet New Mexico Deb who has leaped into her truck and followed as backup. Jordan and I get into the truck as if absolutely nothing out of the ordinary just happened. And I guess nothing really did. Or did it? Monday, September 17, 2001
INNER STRENGTH
If you can start your day without caffeine or pep pills, If you can be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains, If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles, If you can eat the same food everyday and be grateful for it, If you can understand when loved ones are too busy to give you time, If you can overlook when people take things out on you when through no fault of yours something goes wrong, If you can take criticism and blame without resentment, If you can face the world without lies and deceit, If you can conquer tension without medical help, If you can relax without liquor, If you can sleep well without the aid of drugs, Then ... you are probably a SCHIPPERKE. Friday, September 14, 2001
We find respite from our shock and grief at all that is happening in the world
with the CONTINUING antics of our new beloved JORDAN. He has been with us for almost a week and our lives have changed by in leaps, bounds, and barks. Never believed we would have a Schip and certainly not two schips but NEVER three Skips...And with each passing day we wonder how life even thought about existing without Three Schipperkes. The Three have now adjusted to eating out of one big feeder of dry food as well as sharing water bowls. each has claimed a found sleeping place at night. Melanie and Skipper have never been able to leap up to our bed; now we are blessed with not only a cat in bed but a large Schipperke, Air Jordan who doesn't even break a sweat leaping onto the bed. It took him all of 1 minute to 'let go' of his crate in lieu of our, thankfully Kingsize, bed. The Three have each claimed individual television watching zones, begging areas and have each developed a unique relationship with PUMA our rapidly growing cat who takes no guff from any Schip. Monday, September 10, 2001
My delightfully good and wonderfully fast at the keyboard wife, New Mexico Deb,
is still interested in helping with Skippertown Updates...but for now you got me, Jeff Hartzer, on the line. We are day three or four (if you are counting) as the 'possible FOREVER HOMERS' of Jordan the great and wonderfully fast on flies and leaps and bounds. And all continues to develop quite as if life had always been this way. Our SKIPPER,MELANIE,PUMA,the fast growing kitten have each in their own way adopted to the new situation with remarkable ease. JORDAN loves Bunnytown and all it seems to mean to him. His crate has been put away into the basement. He sleeps with pillows...runs with cats...and watches bunnies with his paw on the bunny wall. Just about every minute or even millasecond is PHOTO worthy... For now though we just LIVE here and soon the changes will be so mundane as to allow a photograph or two... Meanwhile, it is a joy to be alive and well with The SKIPPERTOWN crew. Friday, September 07, 2001
Skipper, Melanie, and
all of us here at BunnytownUSA welcome aka "Jordie LaForge" to SKIPPERTOWN!!!! Many thanks to all who enabled AIR JORDAN to travel from South Dakota to North Dakota through Colorado to the upper heights of Albueturkey to the lower heights of 'burque to what we hope is his 'forever home'... Stay tuned... |
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