Loose Moose

Yesterday Momma spent all day doing yard work and I got to roach around and sleep in the grass in the front yard. She came in around dark after putting away all the tools and such and then after dinner she totally collapsed on the couch... I mean out cold! I had to ring the bell to wake her up to let me out around midnight!

So I went out side and was mozying around the yard when I finally noticed... She left the side gate open (even though the huge sign says not to!)! That gate is never open so I assumed she left it that way because she was too tired to take me for walkies and that I should just go for one without her. So I did! I wandered around the neighbors yards for awhile. Pretty cool. My leash does not normally reach there so lots of new smells and things I had never peed on! After awhile I heard some whistling and momma calling my name. She had that panicky but trying to sound happy and excited sound. I was gonna go find her right after I smelled this one last thing. Oh but then there was something else to smell and of course the thing next to that that needed to be peed on. Then all of the sudden headlights! What was momma doin' in the Moose mobile? I was only a few houses away from the Mooselodge for pete's sake! Boy she is lazy. So she gets out and calls me and I give her the I'm busy talk to the paw look. But then she said the magic words... 'Want some chickens'? When ever she says that I always get chickens and even though the chickens were way back at the Mooselodge I knew she was good for it so I hopped in and we went home. I got a whole handful of chickens! She fussed over me like crazy. It was like I had been gone for days. Then she even took me for walkies! Not a bad day all in all.

Note from momma: This is only the 2nd time he has gotten out since we moved here. After I let him out in the back yard I fell into a deep sleep the minute I got back to the couch and the ONLY reason I woke up was a loud noise that sounded like a car door in my drive way- still no idea what the noise was but thank goodness it woke me up. I went to call moose in and he did not answer and the security light in the back was off which meant nothing had moved back there for at least 10 min. Freak out time. I had no idea how long my black dog had been out on a very dark street with a decent amount of traffic. So I hop in the car and head towards US-1 since if he had gone that way things were much more dire. No signs of him. There is a bar where people sit outside on the corner there and I was actually pretty comforted that I think he would wander up to people with food before trying to cross US-1. So I turned around to go the direction of our normal walks and found him sniffing something up against a white house and that is the only reason I saw him! To this minute I have these glimpses of what could have happened if that loud noise had not woken me up or I had not found him when I did. Uggh!