New Man in My Life

Here he is .... The new "little man" in my life - Wally. One night I had a dream that Molly hadn't died, she was just lost and I had to find her. The next day we found this little boy wandering around the neighborhood. I figured it must be fate. He'd been walking up and down the streets of the neighborhood all day and no one could catch him. It took me a while but with lots of treats and canned dog food I was able to convince him to come in the house. We named him Wally because it sounds like Molly.


He's very smart, affectionate and cuddly. He gets along great with the other dogs too. In the house he sticks to us like glue. Follows from room to room, sits in our laps on the couch and sleeps in between us at night.


Outside it's a whole other story! He runs away at any given opportunity and won't come to us. I can open the front door completely and the girls will not run out so I was not at all used to this behavior. If the door opens a crack he is off like a shot, running and staying just out of reach. It's all great fun to him and the game can go on for an hour or more. We also learned that he knows every loose board and tiny hole in our fence. So he can get out of the back yard whenever he chooses. Hence the leash and tie out in the next picture. He can't be out in the back yard without being secured!


So I thought I had this all under control. He gets picked up when I open the front door and put out on the tie out when he is in the back yard. Ha! he can't out smart me!

Yesterday, however he proved he is still way smarter than me. He got Kayla to open the back door for him! Then he proceeded to run around the neighborhood for 2 hours with me mostly in tow. He always came back to the house just when I was frustrated enough to leave him out there. He would wait at the front door, I would open it and he would run off again! Eventually I caught the little sneak when he crawled back under the fence and returned to the back yard!

Here's his sneaky look....