Faye's Family

 Some of Faye's relatives, from left to right: Sunny (brother), Willie (father), Jersey (sister), and Brinks (uncle). Photo courtesy Tasha W., owner of Sunny.

Turtles

The past few weeks I've encountered several turtles on my property.

Faye's first turtle.

This one appeared to be trying to descend the stairs when I found him...

... but turned around when I went to the other side. I ended up moving him away from the edge.

Faye's Family

Tasha, my coworker, whose parents own Faye's parents, sent me this composite of Faye and five of her six brothers and sisters. Top left is Sunny, a brother owned by Tasha. Bottom left is Frank, another brother owned by Tony, a former coworker. Faye is middle right. No ID on the other ones yet.

At her last checkup a few days ago Faye weighed 30 pounds. Tasha and Tony report that their boy dogs are about 70 pounds now. Big boys. Faye is little but she's active and healthy, no complaints from the doctor.

Honesty

One thing I like about dogs is that they're very clear about what they want, if I'm perceptive enough to recognize it. Sometimes there's no doubt...

Can you tell that Faye and Siri want to go into the park?

The only reason we didn't go into the park was because the field was a muddy mess after an all night rain.

Here are a few pictures showing how Faye compares to Siri in size. Siri weighs about 110 lbs. I think Faye weighs about 45 or 50 lbs. With the current stay at home situation I haven't been able to take her to the vet to check her weight. I tried standing on my home scale while holding her, but she doesn't like to be held like that and squirms a lot.

Currently, Faye eats a little more than twice as much (by volume) than the older dogs. She's still eating large breed puppy chow. On my days off I try to give her an extra meal. She still acts like she's starving. This week she is 26 weeks old.

Brea was relaxing on my bed at this time and didn't want to go outside.

Sign of the Times

No more playing in the park, apparently. New signs went up yesterday, which I didn't discover until I took the dogs out last night for a nighttime run.

The signs need to be posted on or near the playground equipment, I think, not at the entrance to the ball field, which is getting very little use except by people playing with their dogs. Every day I see people bringing their kids to play on the playground equipment. That stuff is getting touched way more than the gate to the ball field.

Oh, well.

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