Little helper

[gooeydog]

Today I offered to help my aunt weed out her garden, and I didn't want to leave Goo home in the room (we have the windows open, so she can't be loose alone unless I close them all up, couldn't do that because it would get too hot for the other dogs :roll: ), so I just took her with me. I brought her tie out, a rug for her to lay on, a chewy (pizzle :-? ), and a couple toys, and we made the big trip across the street :lol: . first thing she did was wander around marking things... "this is mine".... "this is mine".... "this is mine, too".... "this is definitely mine"... you get the idea :roll: . Then once we started working, she went over and was "grazing" on this nice green grass by the porch... I called her away a few times, but she kept going back over, so finally gave up. A few minutes later she decided the grass she had eaten would be better off in the driveway, so I had to run in to get a towel to wipe the green slime off her mouth :-? . I went back to work, and she started to chew on her chewy, then got tired of that and just watched... of course she didn't want anything to do with the rug I had dragged over for her, and sprawled out on the blacktop driveway :roll: . After about 1/2 hr of that, she started bugging me again, so I played catch with her for a while, then she settled down again with the chewy (1/2 on the rug then :lol: ). My aunt found an old (rotten) duck egg buried in the garden, and threw it into the weed pile while I wasn't paying attention. I noticed it just as Goo was starting to drop down onto it for a good roll, diving onto her and knocking us both into a pile of weeds and dirt. Goo seemed a little concerned by my "outburst", and went and layed back down. A little while later, she was bugging me again, shoving her head under my arm ("you WILL pet me") and trying to climb on me for attention. I tried to ignore her and keep working, but it was a little hard once she climbed into the garden and started digging, slowly, at a large weed beside the one I was pulling on. I was kinda waiting for her to turn and fling dirt on me in disgust, but instead she bent down and started yanking on the weed with her teeth, like she was trying to pull it out. I shooed her off of it (didn't want her getting sick again), and she started digging at it furiously, hopping up with both front feet as she dug. The weed went flying across the driveway, and she ran after it, stood on it, and shredded it into little bits. Then she came back and tried to get the one I was digging out :lol: . I pointed at another one, and she started digging at it. By that time, I was wondering, "now, why couldn't you have done this when I was trying to fix the garden in our yard last summer!?" :lol: . She lost interest in weeding the garden when I moved to another plant, and went and layed back down. of course, when she saw us opening a bag of mulch, she was right back over there again, wanting to play in it :roll: . I finally got tired of trying to keep her out of it, and put a little handful for her out of our way. She spent a long time hopping around in it and scattering it around the driveway, playbowing and doing "zoomies" through it. By then it was getting dark, so we packed up and came back home, where she promptly hopped up in my chair for a nap :lol:

[Malamum]

Very cute :D

[StarFox]

That is sooo cute! I wish Zebra would help me with the gardening...but all he does is dig up the good grass untill all there is is a dirt patch. :roll:

[bk_blue]

very cute, she was trying to help you :lol: - I could send my chief digger BK over to "help" too. :D

[Marble]

do you ever feel like you're raising a child??? :roll: maybe it's just me...that was really funny. :)

[Rosebud]

:lol:

Great story. Sally & Rocco like to help me harvest the vegetables; !While I'm planting them!


Marble- They are children, four-legged children while they're young and four-legged people when they get older.

:angel:

[Guest Anonymous]

WHat i wouldnt give for a little helper like that, take advantage and feel blessed.
Daz has no interest in anything that anyone is doing unless food is involved. Drey just wants to be in the way he doesnt really care what you are doing he just knows that you could be playing with him instead.

[Guest Anonymous]

:lol: Oh that is TOO CUTE!!! :D Deffently feel blessed! Hazel likes to eat our raspberries off the bush (so of course in the prossess she will toppel over on it, cuz it's so high, and she just HAS to get the ones at the top! :roll: ), and her line use to reach the garden, bad mistake, we had to move the dog house after a while last summer cuz she kept digging a big hole in the dirt to lay in :o
One of our horses use to get out of the pen all the time (he was just a yearling) and eat from the garden, along side our Aussie! :lol: I always wanted to get a picture of that, the horse and sheep dog, together, eating out of the garden! :lol: But every time couldn't find the camera, or the batteries were dead, or they'd move... :roll:

Good Ol' Goo! What a sweetie she is! Thanks for the story! Deffently put a smile on my face!

[mouseatthebusstop]

very cute but Goo will you help by not touching and just chewing your own toys :D :angel: :D

[jen]

what a sweet little girl you have :angel:
i wish my boys would try and help like that! The only one of my boys who`s interested in gardening is my middle boy shaddow, but his idea of gardening is to dig up the nice parts of the lawn to create more heaps of dirt :roll: :cunao:
thanks or that cute stroy :D