Our Over-the-Fence Greeter

Charlie Sue trained our fence guard in chasing up and down the fence line. He is a Great Pyrenees, known for their ability to protect the flock. He is gentle, high speed racer. Once Charlie got him going, he circled the trees, sheds, and the whole yard. 

I saw his eyes light up when I first told him about his attributes. When I go outside, he stands up at the fence for a conversation about how gentle, kind, and handsome he is.  He loves to have his thick white fur finger-combed, so I drag my fingers on one side, only to have him face the other way for a thorough combing of his other side. 

Sassy Sue loved finger-combing too and really hated various brushes.

Charlie Sue and Friends

 

Charlie Sue is very bright, easy to teach, timid indoors, fun and always unpredictable. When asked to do things (like coming indoors), she sometimes puts her head down, walks sadly away, sits, and looks proudly as if to say, "You are not my boss."

Drought plus Charlie racing in the back = no grass.

Charlie Sue is a Patterdale Terrier, a prankster, a remarkable digger and runner. 

Porchie is a Great Pyrenees, the first of Charlie's students in racing up and down the fence. All three are diggers, so we added chicken wire and obstacles to the fence. 

Charlie Sue has trained Dustmop, Porchie, and the Doggie Daycare dogs to race along the fence with her. She barks commands at them but never barks in the house.

Charlie Sue's Photo - More To Come

 

Tunneling Across the Border

  

Charlie Sue is a Patterdale Terrier, bred for digging, bossy, energetic, quiet indoors, hilarious with all her tricks, jumps, spins, and games.

I wrote before that the Berlin Wall, stage left, was letting the Little White Floormop dig and pass under the fence, both ways. He is the tiny version of Porchi, the Great Pyrenees, who also digs but not that much. I saw LWF go under the fence both ways, thanks to the digging done by Porchi and him, but clearly facilitated by Charlie Sue.

I let Charlie Sue out in the rain, knowing she would be back soon. When I went to the back door, I had to call for Charlie several times. She came running full speed, grinning, out of deep back yard, cloaked by the green wall of plants and trees. Right after her was LWF, also grinning, his white fur soaked in mud up to his belly. 

LWF wanted to stay and share the mud, but I wrapped him up in a towel and carried him over to the neighbor. I knocked hard on the door (very cold and heavy rain), and it opened up. The father said to the children, "Look. He's back. Say thank you!" They all said, "Thank you! Thank you!" They were grinning and all lit up like Christmas. They might have thought LWF was lost forever, because he was in our yard, in an area surrounded by plants. 

Yesterday my favorite repair guy looked over the multiple Tunnels of Love under the fence wire. He said, "Just like my fence." He fixed the multiple efforts with chicken wire, with a couple of extensions to keep it more secure. 

Doggie Day Care has similar issues, but that fence is largely backed by a series of Clethra shrubs. I intended them for sharing those hummingbird plants, but now I thinking of cutting down on flirting, blocking their view. Charlie loves to socialize and train other dogs to run up and down the fence on their side.