Tonight I took Dudley across the road down our little driveway that leads back into the forest. Usually he does his evening business and we head back home. Tonight he took it upon himself to hike up the hill to our neighbor’s house with the barky Malinois and just happened to meet the neighbors as they were heading out the door to go to dinner. Dudley barged past them to go inside and proceeded to eat the little dog’s dinner. He is lucky that we have absolutely amazing neighbors who were “sit, stay, hang out, we’ll be back in an hour or so”. Needless to say, we will be dogsitting for them when they travel since Dudley is so comfortable with their dogs and their house 🙂
I guess Dudley is one of those “invite me into your house once and I am a guest forever” type of dogs. The dogsitting is actually perfect as they live perched on the hill above our property. If we go out on their deck, we can see our property down below and I could probably toss a roll of toilet paper down to my parents no problem. Their yard is completely fenced and the only thing I would have to worry about is their fish pond with the massive 7 year old koi. I wouldn’t enjoy having to hoist Dudley out of the koi pond if he made the mistake of falling in. Their house is two levels but the kitchen/living room/sleeping area are all on the main floor for us. I would make sure I had a baby gate up to keep Dudley from attempting to climb the stairs if we were spending time there. So I may be posting pictures of Dudley sitting out on the most amazing deck that overlooks the river soon. The neighbors are retired and do a lot of travelling.
Ooooh what a lovely place you live in. Your neighbors sound like great people, there’s nothing better than having people next to you who you get along with, and who love your dog too!
we are so fortunate to live in a pretty special area with amazing neighbors. my neighbors with the barky malinois have a gorgeous house with an amazing deck/fenced yard that sits on the hill above us. we have established a relationship with the dogs over the past 5 years where we used to dog sit for them. My GSD and their rescue dog who passed a few years ago absolutely hated each other so we weren’t able to dog sit for them for a while. We did a few over night stays but the wood floors were so hard on Kota’s legs and he was not able to chill out and relax, which meant that just one over night stay would set him back the next day. They had other dog sitters who were able to stay with the dogs but seeing how chill Dudley is, we can do a month of dog sitting when they need to travel. We don’t have to be up there over night on the weekends which is good for the cat, who really doesn’t care, but she does love having me home to sleep in the bed with her.
Dudley has proven that he is all about the netflix and chill situation. He finds a bed after eating whatever food is out for the dogs and just relaxes. It will be fun to take some pictures of the dogs on their beds in front of the fireplace <3 One thing that I have noticed is that Dudley doesn't like doing any sort of pooping in other people's yards. He is a bit of a gentleman in that aspect but he does enjoy a good belch after dinner! My neighbors are very excited to see how he makes himself at home as it benefits them to have someone dogsitting who lives nearby. I do have the benefits of having laundry facilities on site as well as not having to deal with filling up my trailer's small toilet tank!!! And having a full size kitchen to cook in as well as a dishwasher and two sinks. Living in a tiny trailer makes you realize what luxury really is!
We are also very fortunate that our neighbors on the other side of the slough are completely amazing as well. Everyone absolutely loves Dudley and they loved my Kota. Our other neighbors have said that if we ever needed them to dog sit Dudley, they would love to have him. They have a dog run that goes into their barn and a fenced back yard and deck. Funny thing, this spring I took Kota over to hang out with the neighbor, Penny the horse and Phynn the GSP. Kota ended up losing his footing and got stuck in a mud bog in the horse pasture. I have a feeling Dudley would end up doing the same thing! Gotta love our dogs with unsure footing <3
Our property location for all 3 houses is pretty special. We all live right on the bank of the Yaquina River and right next to a slough. Every morning, the resident birds are out making a racket. We have a blue heron that lives up the slough, osprey family, bald eagles, and grumpy kingfishers that make so much noise. As well as a family of crows that my dad has been feeding from when they were babies this spring with the blue jays and starlings, etc. A ton of nature around us in our little pocket of river property!