Well, Blog 2.0 didn't go so well. So we will take one more shot at it before giving up on this idea for good.
Might as well go with an easy but well-worn topic.
Wiley
(It may not look comfortable, but, Holly ends up on top of Wiley a lot..)
He's 2 months short of his 12th birthday - he made it to yet another happy arrival of Kevin home. He's had his bad moments this year.....there are definitely some times where I was worried that he wasn't looking so good. But as they year comes to a close he seems to be in fine form; looks good, gets around pretty well, relatively active. Active enough to scarf a pan of fudge off of the counter!
Maybe the most notable thing about Wiley is that we think he's starting to go deaf (or has gone deaf). If you call and he's not looking at you, well, you are out of luck for the most part. This has had one very bad outcome.....he doesn't 'hear' the warning for the invisible fence and has blundered his way through it once or twice in the last month. The most memorable 'breakout' was Wiley and Bailey trotting their way down the road; they made it all the way onto Sower and were heading towards Bennett Woods before I caught them and even then Bailey came when I called but Wiley just kept trotting. I (barely) caught him before he made it to Hulett...and that would have / could have been a disaster if he had made it that far. This was at about 2:40 in the afternoon so I just sat on the curb over near Capeside and waited for Fric and Frac to come rolling home from the high school to take us all home.
So yeah, he's doing just fine.
