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Welcome, Mesa


We have a new addition to our household after 9 months since Puppy left us. We now have another dog running around our house! And she is a cutie, too. Her name is Mesa and she actually belongs to our niece, Claire. We are just taking care of her until the end of September while Claire works a summer job on a resort ranch in Montana. Claire was here for a couple days before she took off for her new job
so Carol came over and we had margaritas and homemade corn tortillas.



Sort of a mini Mexican feast.


Mesa's story started in New Mexico where she lived in a pack of stray dogs until Claire rescued her last summer. She is such a mild mannered dog for living in a pack. She desires a home.

Claire worked at a horse camp in Wyoming last summer and then traveled around the West until October. She ended up here at the end of her travels when we first met Mesa. Then the two of them flew home to Maryland. (She left her car here until they returned) We loved Mesa when we first met her and so did our cats. They thought Puppy had returned! The cats were not even afraid of her at all so that was a big positive. 

Mesa is still a little timid around the cats and doesn't quite know what to do when they rub up against her. Now isn't that a switch? We are also taking care of Nick and Sachiyo's cat, Tommy, while they are in Japan until June.


Tommy was initially afraid of Mesa but it didn't last long because he saw how the other two cats acted around her so he soon mellowed out. I guess you could say we're a pet boarding house now.


Mesa came complete with stuffed toys that she LOVES to play with. She will just run around and around in the back yard with her toys.


Claire believes Mesa is part American Eskimo and Australian Shepherd or Border Collie, some type of herding dog because she has some faint spots in her coat and she runs like one, too. The cats are amazed to watch her run and so are we. She goes the speed of a bullet, around and around, very low to the ground just like a herding dog. But I keep her on a leash when we go out in public because I can't take any chances of losing her.


I am so happy to have a dog with me again when I go out for a walk.



People always ask me "where's your dog?" or "you need a dog". I guess I look like a dog person. I've even been offered a foster dog by a person walking a group of foster dogs. So, now I'm complete again. We are looking forward to many more walks with Mesa.



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