Nature Walk

Over the weekend Dudley and I went for a glorious nature walk in Wilton, Connecticut.  We saw tons of wild raspberries, or rather, tons of wild raspberry buds and under ripe berries.  I plucked the reddest one I could find and popped it into my mouth. Disappointingly tart.  Just two days later, when we revisited, they had become soft and sweet, and unlike any raspberry you would find in your market's produce section.  I do not know why the birds had not discovered them, but they probably will before I return to pick a basketful.

 

Unfortunately, while I was discovering wild raspberries Dudley found a nasty little carcass of unknown origins.  He was contentedly chomping away when I turned to see what he was up to.  I completely freaked him out when I dove upon him and jammed my entire hand to the back of his throat to retrieve a fistful of slimy bones.  Poor thing.  He had ghastly diarrhea for the rest of the weekend.

  

A short distance away I saw my first mimosa tree with its feathery blossoms and frond like leaves.  The breeze wafted its delicate and exotic fragrance through the air.

Comments

[Kim]

Hello Frank,
I am not one who admires spending time on blogs, but I do love yours and Melissa Morris'...always such great photos and thoughtful, intelligent writing.

I'll be back:-)

kb

[Kim]

p.s. I wish I were brave enough to pull the indignant "hand down the dog's throat, when Trotter picks up some rubbish, say geese, um..."artwork".(my Choco Lab and Pet Set muse:-)

Stay well,

kb

[Frank]

Ha! You gotta do what you gotta do!

[Abigail]

Tags once emerged from my parents pool area with a giant dried out carcass of a curly tail lizard. These lizards are much bigger than the harmless "geckos" that run across the sidewalks and are poisonous if consumed by pets. They kind of look like mini komodo dragons- they are nasty! I thought it was a palm frond then started screaming at him as he got closer with it. I had to pick up the carcass in some newspaper and throw it away. I have also wrestled a fish head from Tags' clenched jaws- so gross!

[Kim]

Oh gosh! you guys are so much braver than I, I'm such a girl.

I've walked Trotter for a 1/2 mile as he clenched a pork chop bone in his mouth and would not "Drop It!"

[Frank]

A fish head? How did Tags get ahold of a fish head? Your stories are amusing me tonight Abigail!

And Kim, I love that you've joined the conversation. All you dog readers need to check out Kim's website! Now Kim, honestly, what would you do if you found Trotter chewing on a discarded chicken wing and there was no he-man like myself to come to the rescue? You'd have to go in.

[Michele Kelly]

The mention of dogs putting yucky things in their mouths reminds me of an unknown animal skull we have sitting in our garage. When Murphy was around 5 months old he came running back from the woods carrying a skull. Kevin retrieved it from his mouth and we still can't figure out what it is. The other night after hearing and hearing and hearing about Dudley's escapade I was walking Murphy and he started to chomp on a piece of the jaw (with teeth still intact) that he must have found in the woods. Thankfully he didn't get diarrhea.