Molly's Gone....

It has been a rough couple of days here.  Molly is gone.  I last saw her about 4pm on Tuesday, running over to mawmaw's to sniff around.  She hasn't been seen since.  DH went Wednesday and looked for over 2 hours, all over the mountain and around her usual places.  No sign, nothing.  We thought maybe she got hit by a car, no body, no hair, no blood. Anywhere.  It's as if she just disappeared.  We've come to the conclusion that someone must have taken her.  Some have tried before, but my MIL was around and told them she was ours.

We live in a fairly rural area with not many neighbors and no animal control to speak of, so we don't think it was someone thinking they were doing a good deed.  Our road is used alot as a short cut to other towns and lots of people drive by us.   She was a beautiful dog and maybe that worked against us.  I hope that if that is what happened they give her a good home and treat her like family.  That's what she was to us.  My oldest is heartbroken and can't understand why someone would do that.  I didn't know what to say.  I just held him as he cried.  It just broke my heart.

Here's hoping that maybe we were wrong and she just decided to go on a little trip and will be home soon.  She will always be welcome with open arms and lots of love.  We miss you Molly. Come home soon.

   

Opossum Dog?

This is Molly...She's been with us about 10 months now after finding her way (being tossed out) to our house.  She is pretty much the perfect dog.  She's very social not dog or food aggressive, loves the kids, doesn't poo in the yard, and barley barks. Only when some scary animal is across the street in the woods, and then she's just warning them to stay away from her family.  Not a hunter by any means, although she does love a good chase now and again with Mawmaw's cats.

My FIL called last night to see if he and his brother could use her to go opossum hunting....Now this is the first time in 14 years that he's ever wanted to go hunting of any kind.  I don't know exactly what they expect her to do, yes she does sniff stuff out on the property, usually lizards, squirrels, chipmunks and the like. However, she doesn't bark when she finds it, she usually just sniffs and goes on her merry way.  She's pretty silent most times.

I'm almost tempted to go with them just to see how amusing this could be.  I'm betting she will tag along with them, may even find something to chase. She will not let them know she's going, she'll just take off like lightning, as she's quite quick when motivated.  She will then come back to them and wonder why they couldn't keep up with her.  After a while I imagine she'll get bored and come back home to her nice warm bed, maybe bark at the scary animal across the road going through the woods, which will probably be two older men looking for the silent white dog that was supposed to help them....

Tails of Molly....Opossum

When last we saw Molly she was bringing home a deer leg.....

I was sitting knitting, trying to finish a pair of socks, when all of a sudden there is a pounding on the front door. D is yelling and pounding. What the heck is going on? He and W were in the backyard on the swing set. I don't think anyone is hurt as the yelling doesn't sound like it, more like excited panic....I open the door to D telling me I have to see what Molly caught! An opossum! Huh? They've got to have it wrong. I walk around to the back yard and what do I see?

A baby opossum

Well I'll be damned! She did catch one. After mulling over my plan of action I send D for gloves and a box. And the camera of course... I can't quite figure out if it's cute or just creepy...all those little teeth and beady eyes. It is breathing and twitching it's ears, but that's all I can tell from this point.

I pick it up to discover several wounds on it. A big hole in it's back, the tail is bitten almost in two, and a couple of skin "rips" in it's side. I put it in the box and to the house we head. After trying to get hold of my DH I sit and watch and find out that it wants to move but can't do much with it's backend. Figures.....So in the way of not wanting to watch an animal suffer we decide to do the right thing and put it down....Sad, but that's the way of the animal kingdom I guess...