New Family Member

It has been a couple weeks at this point, but I thought I would introduce our newest family member. His name is 'Schultz' he is a 12.5 year old schnauzer. His previous family could not take care of him any longer and they were having issues finding him a home. He is the sweetest thing ever. Though his dog tags have Schultz "Me Monster" on it, so I'm not sure what that means. He is such a good dog he is mostly interested in cuddling and laying around. He doesn't like to be hugged around the neck for any reason, but he has no issues coming up and laying on you and letting you pet him all night. I'm really hoping that some of his good behavior will rub off onto my hounds. It is safe to say that it is good we have a king size. When we get 3 dogs, 2 adults, 1 child and a partirdge in a pear tree laying in our bed…it is a party.

The picture below is of the trio we have. He is the size of Thor but the coloring of Odin. They all get along well, Odin is still a bully at times and will scold Schultz and Thor, but he has always done that. Having Schultz in the family has helped our dogs become more cuddly, they want the lov'ins also.

Left to Right: Odin, Schultz, Thor

No Return

Well it has been a little over 24 hours and we have had not return of the evil rodents. After searching the internet, I'm convinced that it was an evil ground squirrel. See the image below.

attack of the schnauzers

Michelle and I for sometime have been saying we wanted a blog so that we can keep in touch with family and friends easier. We have multiple friends with their blogs and they all do a great job in adding things and sharing their lives. They also have catchy names and I could never think of something cool that would represent our family and what we are about.

Well today, we have one!

The story behind it started with Michelle waking me up this morning saying something was wrong with one of the dogs and that they might have been stuck. So I get out of bed and put flip flops...I like to call them thongs, but I get in trouble...so I'm outside looking real "guud" and they were not stuck, rather they had trapped a animal under the tongue of our 4 wheeler trailer. So I call them off and get them in the house and Odin's beard is full of mud and blood. So I get him cleaned off as much as possible to make sure he isn't bleeding or hurt and I do not see anything.

At this point, I need to find out what is out there, there was way too much blood for it to be a mouse...plus it was making a cry for help that I had never heard and was too loud for a small rodent. So I take the princess flashlight out there and lift the tongue up and this hideous thing runs out...not really, it wasn't hideous, but it did take off. It looked like a squirrel or prairie dog. Oh well. I go back in since it is early and I can still make it to work on time. I wanted to make sure the dogs were good to go for the day so I let them out before I leave for work. And what do I hear within minutes....you go it...they cornered the thing again. So I get out there and call them off, again.

By this point Michelle is worried about the dogs and we end up calling animal control to make sure things are alright, they add us to the list and I wait. They really didn't take long to get there, it was not more then a few minutes after I finished getting ready that West Jordan Animal Control arrived. So, we went into the backyard and it was still trapped where the dogs had left it the second time. They attempted to cage the animal but it hobbled off because it has only 3 legs. We ended up finding the other leg in the yard near the trailer.

We rooted through the weeds near the gate and we were unable to find it, it must have taken off, I let the dogs back out while I rooted through with a shovel and we didn't turn anything else up.

So that was my morning and I wasn't even that late to work...I still clocked in by 8:30A and the start of the killerschnauzers blog!