This week has gone to the dogs...

Ok, so this has been a hard week. Trish and Wendy left on vacation and I agreed to babysit their two poodles Sugar and Spice. They were scared (of course) and Sugar had actually tried to dig under the fence on Saturday, but the ground was frozen so she didn't get far before I found out what she was up to. Norman has the pager for a couple of weeks so on Sunday morning he'd been called in to work. I'd gone to church (see...I can be a good girl) and Norman headed to my house to relax and take a nap while he waited for me to get home. Well...when he walked in he got bombarded by dogs (my two dogs LOVE him) and Spice made a run for it. He chased her through the complex and sent me a text that he needed help catching her. I headed home, but my church is at the university which is 30 min away. He even got in his car and followed her, but every time he'd get close to her she'd run...ok...let me clarify...he wasn't trying to hit her with his car...she could just run a lot faster and whenever he'd get out and call for her she'd run even faster. I finally got home and by this point she'd ran into the trail area and for some reason Norman didn't take his car off-roading through the swamp/trail area and she was gone. We searched and searched and couldn't find anything. I of course call Trish and Wendy upset and tell them of our predicament. We kept looking, but yah...no luck. At dusk we decided to take one more car ride through the complex to see if we could see anything. I'm sure the neighbors thought I was crazy because I'd driven through there sooooo many times yelling "Spice....Spice..." out of my window. Suddenly, a poodle ran across the road. We were soooo happy!!! I jumped out of the car (Norman stayed in because he didn't want to scare her) and started calling for Spice. The dog came over and I lectured her for running away and took her to the car. Once in the car we realized she had no collar. I started to look close and realized that she was darker than I remembered also. We thought maybe she'd gotten into something so we took her home only to find out that we'd just found someone else's poodle. What are the chances of finding another lost poodle with out a docked tail running through the same area where we lost ours....oh man!! So, I was back to four dogs and yet still not too thrilled. I did end up finding the owner to the other dog (her name was Bella and she lived in Foxboro) and I decided to get Sugar groomed. So...I forgot that poodles are so fru-fru when groomed up. Yup...I girlified Trish and Wendy's dog...ROFL!!!


Please note that she has purple bows in her hair and everything. Whoops! She LOVED it though. She pranced around the house for the rest of the week showing me how beautiful she was.