tosbert said:
Don't let her out of your sight for more than one minute - 6ft fences are nothing to a determined dog!
When I was about 8 years old, my big sister arrived home with a female puppy which someone at school had given her. My parents were a bit annoyed but they let her keep it, though they were a bit slow booking a visit to the vet...
A year or so later I was playing in the back garden when I heard about 53 dogs yelping loudly out in the back entry and there was the sound of frantic scratching on the garden gate. Next thing, I saw a pair of paws hooked over the top of the 7 foot high fence and a dog with a crazed look on its face hauled himself to the top and flung himself into the garden. He seemed intent on playing some strange sniffing and cuddling game with our dog (I was very young at the time and didn't understand such matters
). I ran into the house to tell my parents and they seemed a bit upset about this...
My dad filled a large bucket with water, ran out into the garden and flung it over the two dogs. He obviously thought that the other dog needed a wash and might make our dog dirty. Funnily enough, the other dog didn't find this at all distracting and he carried on playing but then he kind of got bored and wandered off to the back gate...
My dad shoved the dog out the gate, and had to fight off the other 52 dogs who also wanted to come in to play...
Anyway, a couple of months later I was asleep when I was awakened by a blood-curdling noise. It sounded like
The Hound of the Baskervilles but I couldn't tell where it was coming from. I started crying and ran into my parents' bedrom and told them that there was a monster in the house. They let me stay in their room that night...
When I woke up the next morning, my mum asked me if I wanted to see the 'monster'. I was scared but she led me back into my bedroom and told me to look under the bed. There was our dog Judy with three tiny puppies. My dad must have gone down to the pet shop and bought us some new dogs while I was asleep!
