Cactus Flower

Our Rat Killing Dog!  Go, Girl, go!  Last night a rat ran through the kitchen and living room and scrambled into my closet to hide.  Tiny cornered it in the closet.  We banged on the closet to scare it out.  Old Girl dog grabbed it up on its run for its life and squeezed the life out of it!  What a dog!  10 years old and still going strong! We have to deal with lots of critters on the mission field.  Some are ugly like rats.  Oh, how I hate them!  But we can be thankful for good dogs that help protect our house from beasts of all types including thieves!  Our dogs have cornered rats, mice, snakes, possums.  Chased big toads, ran off stray dogs and cats, and attacked a few "intruders" over the years. Thankful for my dogs!

Was thinking about all the pets in my life.  Seems old Blackie is getting a little slow these days.  Pets on the mission field are important to family health in my opinion.  Furloughs are often rough though and I've been hoping that dear old black dog goes on to doggy heaven peacefully before our next big trip to the States. Dogs for us provide friendship and true protection in a world full of petty and big crime.  We are thankful for our good dogs.  Below is a repost from a few years back... Tippy was the name of one of my uncles dog's when I was a girl. Tippy was a good old dog. She seemed to live a good life. I remember as a little city girl thinking that some day I could have a dog, too. That day came after we moved from the big city to the country hillsides of Virginia. Daddy went to see a man about a dog and came home with Star. She was a pretty black dog with a small white patch that earned her the name of Star. She was an outside dog and a good one....