Our Camp Dogs
No camp is complete without small animals to love. Gone are the days however when we had goats, pigs, chickens, rabbits and sheep. Now we are a bit more sensible. We cuddle with dogs and cats.
Babe
Eileen has two dogs: Babe and Pudge. Babe is a black lab/golden retriever mix. She is timid at first, and when she becomes comfortable with you, she welcomes your touch.
Babe follows Eileen everywhere, even on trail rides. Interesting
is how she runs ahead through the woods and then sits and waits
peacefully for the ride to arrive.
She is patient. Often she lays on the ramp at the barn while Eileen teaches lessons, or she sleeps on the front lawn by the house, waiting for Eileen to come home. She has manners when she eats, seldom voices her opinion unless someone is coming to the door, and loves sleeping on her soft warm bed.
Pudge
Pudge was a gift from a family moving to North
Carolina during the winter of 2007. She was two. She is a bleached
blond English retriever who gives Babe company and likes to sit on
your foot.
When she arrived, she did not 'do stairs'. Now she does stairs. She is a bouncer, bopping up and down when she sees you. That has good points and bad...like Eileen loves being noticed and hates when Pudge runs another pair of her nylons.
Pudge inhales her food,, loves to roll in the mud, and shows no horse sense whatsoever. We have to watch her at the barn because she is so trusting. She sits down and leans against a horse's leg, for example. When she picks the wrong horse for that trust exercise, she spooks the horse. Such is Pudge.
At Eileen's house, there are four cats: Tuxedo, Tinkerbelle
(actually Tinkerbill), K.C. (short for kitty in a can - long
story), and Socks. Often they are around the Camp Lodge in the summer, but each
one hangs pretty close to Eileen's house.