Introducing Buddy!

Buddy is my dog. He is mostly a mix of an Australian Shepherd and a German Shepherd. He is so cute! We bought him in the autumn at a flea market. Sometimes, Buddy's tail crosses in what I call a "twix". That's the one unique thing about Buddy. I believe that there is a unique thing about every dog. It could be the color of it's fur, or how it acts...just anything.

I do admit it, Buddy doesn't have one single bit of retriever in him. But he loves to run and play (part of the car chase) and chew (part of why he doesn't bring back the ball or toy). Sometimes he tries to play tag and tears across the yard. Sometimes he'll go around the whole house!

There is a line of bushes in the front yard that Buddy and I love to play tag behind. He tries to hide from me behind those and the forsythia bushes. When I'm on one side, he'll hide on the other. When we're playing around the forsythia bushes, he stays in one spot until I run far enough so I can see him, then he runs to the other side of the bush and does it again. After a few times of that, he tears off somewhere else and I follow. But we don't play around those as much as we do around the bushes in the front yard. Usually at the start, when I lunge at him a few times, he just runs around the bushes a couple times - his warmup - then stops. I lunge at him, then he goes the other way - and the chase is on! Sometimes, Buddy comes one way and I go the other way. When he gets close enough to see that I'm heading his way, he stops. Then, I either lunge at him again (in which he goes the other way) or wait until he either runs the other way or keeps on running and slithers past me as he goes on.

Another silly thing he does is that he eats weird stuff. He turns his nose up on jalapenos, but loves sticks and liriope - both the purple bean-shaped flower petals on the long, purple-tinted stems and the long dark green leaves. He loves the flowers and stems most and won't eat leaves at certain times. Most of the time he just chews on a leaf for about a second and then drops it. Sometimes I even see peach pits around the place.

Of course, too, he terrorizes the neighbor cats - Min-Min, Nicholas, Sabrina, and Basil. After all, what is he? A dog.