"Riley and Me”

Well, if you know Travis and I…you know Riley too. This dog is one crazy pup that we love so much. I say this about two times a day, “I love you Riley, but dang you tick me off!” Here are some stories and pictures:

There has been about 6 or 7 times when Riley has gotten out of the fence and we had to catch her. Many of our neighbors in Westbrook have helped us catch her and always end with saying “She is fast!” I’m sure that when Travis and I have tried to catch her, everyone is looking out the window saying “There she goes again…” When we take her outside she looks straight at us…and then PLOWS under the fence right in front of us!!

One time she got out at 1 in the afternoon (it was extremely hot outside) and I tried to catch her for 45 minutes. I finally had to give up and come home (crying of course). The last time I saw her was about a mile away right where the exit is on the interstate. Travis helped me and when we got back after we had zero luck…she was laying in our backyard with the gate wide open!

Once when we came back in town, Riley was not in our backyard! And then we heard a bark…Riley was in the neighbor’s fenced backyard. Came to find out a few of our neighbors had been trying to catch her over the weekend and finally just put her in their backyard!

When Janie, Kristen, Travis, and I came back to the Dawson’s house the other day it was storming and raining really hard. We couldn’t find Riley anywhere and finally Travis found her in the sheep pen with no roof!

And all those time when she was a little puppy and we traveled…we had to bring her cage and set it up just like she was a little toddler in a play pen…we hated that!! And of course all of those times when she would chew things up…like both of our eye glasses, Travis and my “undergarments,” our internet cord (our internet wasn’t working for 3 days and we had no idea why), Trav’s Texas cup, Trav’s shoes, she has thrown up shoe strings, and the list could go on… Oh, and we cant forget to say that when we take her on a walk, we think she might pass out because she is pulling on the lease so hard its chocking her!

Billy once said “When yall move to Waco you may have to put her in Kyle's backyard. But you would have to be careful because she might hear yall from your house with those BIG ears of hers!”

She was so innocent when we first got her...

And then she started to get a little crazy...

She "play bites" a lot...but it hurts!

During the winter she pulled ALL of her stuff to the middle of the yard, time after time!

This is how Riley guards our house...through the window!


We still love her : )