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Puppy Dog Tales - May 2017

5/1/2017

 

Snowbird Dogs (and Cats)

Robbie MacDougal, Shetland Sheepdog and canine journalist, introduces a few of the regular winter time pet residents of Bay Hide Away in Lakeshore.  Most will be headed north soon.  See you next year! 
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A few months ago we got a call from the Bay Hide Away RV Park. They wanted us to come for breakfast and to get a check for Friends of the Animal Shelter in Hancock County. "Sure," we said.  My human, Christina Richardson, and I had a great breakfast and brought home a check to help with the spay and neuter program.
 
Bay Hide Away is a wonderful campground where many of the same people come back every year to see the sites on the coast and do things together.  Joe and Michele Richard own the place and encourage their visitors to bring their pets.

Well, one thing led to another and I decided to get a few stories about these furry visitors to our area in the words of the humans who travel with them.
Enjoy! 

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Silly from Wisconsin
My cat Silly, she can love you one minute & hiss at you the next. She loves to travel in our motor home. Silly sleeps on a rug on the dash and sometimes she even wants to drive. She loves Bay Hide Away Campground. She loves to watch the birds & has lots of sunshine for all her naps. Silly's quite vocal when she wants to eat, especially at 2am. But all in all, we wouldn't trade her.  She's our little girl.


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Marco Polo from USA
This is my mugshot from the paper shredding incident.  But I was framed, the cat did it!  After my rescue from Alabama and transport to Connecticut, I found my forever home.  I now travel the country in a travel trailer (which is a whole lot easier to guard than a house) with my human.  I get to sniff new places, score treats from new neighbors, and ride in a truck.  But the place I have the most fun and spend the most time is Bay Hide Away.  It's nice to have a place to come home to when you're 'On the go'.  Marco Polo.


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Tucker & Tanner (AKA "TNT") from Wisconsin
Tucker & Tanner enjoy spending their winter at Bay Hide Away RV Park! They love relaxing with friends, walks on the beach and sunning on a warm blanket!  Every winter they meet up with old friends and make new friends from all over the US and Canada. 

Shmoo from Wisconsin
Shmoo is our Bichon and the ruler of our household.  How his name came about.  Remember "Little Abner?"  There was a small little group of bowling pin-sized white creatures. Their whole purpose in life was to make people happy.  Our Shmoo lives up to this huge responsibility.  He loves everyone!
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Riley & Bella from Illinois
We love coming south for the winter.  It gets so cold at home, we don’t get to go out and play very much.  That’s all we do now! We love taking our mom & dad for walks, and would be amazing at chasing squirrels and rabbits, if they would just trust us and let us run free! It’s also lots of fun meeting up with our Snowbird “dog” friends. There’s always new dogs, like Stretch - that is her photo-bombing our picture. She is from Kansas. We sitting by the campfire too.

Rocky is 14 years old, and was rescued from Louisiana. He is the old man of the bunch and is retired from his days as Top Dog at Bay Hide Away RV Park! He loves to eat, sleep, go for short walks, play outside and eat lots of treats. He has traveled all over the U.S., visiting some of the Snowbird dogs. He prefers now to stay close to home and let them come to visit him!
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Boomer is seven-years-old and a very sweet, friendly, fun dog. He loves to do everything and wants to be included in everything. He was rescued from a Flea Market in Louisiana.  His first name was “Poppy” and then “Peanut." Through no fault of his own, the first two forever families did not work out. We changed his name to “Boomerang” (since he kept coming back) and he has been with us ever since! 

 Roux is an 11-year-old Bassett Hound.  We rescued her when she was pregnant with eight puppies! She is fun-loving, never met a stranger, enjoys being around people, greeting other dogs and very playful. All of her puppies found forever homes, although her first born still lives with her! She loves to howl out a tune whenever she sees the camper’s walking or riding their bikes around the RV Park!
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Youglee is a nine-year-old Bassett mix & Roux’s first born! He’s a sweetheart, loves people, animals, everything! Truly a momma’s boy, he gets teased a little for still living with his mom.  He especially enjoys sitting on the backyard table or chair and watching the RVs go in and out.  He loves going for walks and playing fetch with his toys. Youglee gets very excited when he meets the new campers and we joke that he cannot hold his “licker!"

Tiger Lilly - Michigan
At home our 15-yearo-old cat, Tiger Lilly, sleeps all day and goes out all night.  So when we brought her here last year, she wanted to do the same thing. I carried her around the RV Park during the day so she could see where she was. The first time she asked to go out at night she came back in about 20 minutes.  
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The next time she wouldn’t come back in! I would see her outside the door but she would run and hide as soon as I opened the door. After three days, we had to trick her and catch her in a live trap.  She stayed inside for the rest of our four-month stay. 

This year, when we came back to Bay Hide Away RV Park, we worked with her outside during the day again, letting her explore near the motorhome.  Now she is happily sleeping all day inside and going outside at night.

​This is the place to be for all of us who live here full time and those who come and see us. Who knows the next dog you see walking down the street on the end of a leash could be from Michigan or Wisconsin or Iowa – anywhere.
 
Gentle readers, Daisy told me I need to end with her special sign off so, keep your tail high and your feet dry.

​Love, Robbie



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