I am not about to leave the dog saga without a tip of the hat to Ellie Mae, the timid blonde labrador retriever the new puppy loves so fiercely. Ellie is easy to love. She technically belongs to prince mostly charming, the king of our castle. She is his "man dog." She was supposed to be his hunting dog but between her timidity and our spoling of her, he would be more likely to swim for a duck in a pond than she.Her master hand picked her to fill the hole in our hearts left by a blonde lab name Chloe who we lost in tragic circumstances.
From the time she came to live in our backyard, no matter where we placed her house, Ellie has always preferred to be beneath the magnolia tree. A couple of summers ago she had nine puppies. All cute. In a range of colors. Five survived and went to live in new homes and yards. Ellie never quite got over the stress of all that. It mostly shows up in limp.
She was named after Jeb Clampett's daughter on the old sitcom "The Beverly Hillbillies." My middle sister, Karen the Good, had taken to calling my Baby Daughter "Ellie May"because of her love of "critters." Baby Daughter's Aunt Karen said animals would should up at her house when Baby Daughter came to visit that never appeared at another other time.
We were looking for an "E" name (Abbie, Bella, Chloe and once we had a dalmatian named Disney,) so... Ellie Mae seemed perfect but with a twist on the spelling.
She is quite well mannered and very tolerant.
Examples abound but here are a few of my favorites:
From the time she came to live in our backyard, no matter where we placed her house, Ellie has always preferred to be beneath the magnolia tree. A couple of summers ago she had nine puppies. All cute. In a range of colors. Five survived and went to live in new homes and yards. Ellie never quite got over the stress of all that. It mostly shows up in limp.
She was named after Jeb Clampett's daughter on the old sitcom "The Beverly Hillbillies." My middle sister, Karen the Good, had taken to calling my Baby Daughter "Ellie May"because of her love of "critters." Baby Daughter's Aunt Karen said animals would should up at her house when Baby Daughter came to visit that never appeared at another other time.
We were looking for an "E" name (Abbie, Bella, Chloe and once we had a dalmatian named Disney,) so... Ellie Mae seemed perfect but with a twist on the spelling.
She is quite well mannered and very tolerant.
Examples abound but here are a few of my favorites:
- Ellie Mae waits to be invited to come inside; even on the coldest or hottest of days or the darkest of nights.
- The grandbaby rode around on Ellie's back until Ellie's hip got so bad we had to make her stop.
- She still tolerates the grandbaby putting hats and/or clipping barrettes on her.
- The other evening, I watching as Ellie simply got up and turned around to keep the new puppy from continuing to chew on the end of her tail. She never growled, never snipped or nipped, though probably she should have.
The Grandbaby calls Ellie her best friend but Parker is doing her very best to be Ellie's companion of choice. This could get interesting.
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