Fort Wayne Adventures by Xena

Published on by Xena, Lucy and Chia

Xena: Hi there friends. Thought I’d share a few pictures of moments in Fort Wayne last weekend. First, here’s a pic of me on the big couch in the front room of the Air B& B where we stayed.

It sure was comfy!

The first night there, we were laying in bed and heard a loud scraping sound, from the atttic. Mommy turned on the light and the sound stopped. She turned out the light, we all settled in again, and it happened again. Light on, noise off. Once more it happened, and this time the animal was also making “talking” noises. We all ran and got in bed in the other bedroom, and we didn’t hear it again. But it sure did sound like a BIG animal like a raccoon or a possum, not a mouse or rat.
The next day we all went outside after breakfast, and guess what we saw in the neighbor’s yard! A huge raccoon!! We stood at the gate and barked and barked, but it just stood there staring at us. After a bit, it turned around and slowly sauntered away. Mommy didn’t get a picture of it, so please use your imagination.

A little later in the morning, me and Chia and Lucy went ‘sploring in the fenced-in backyard.

The yard was a pretty nice size, and it was surrounded on the inside of the fence by lots of ivy and weeds and – we soon found out – little green burrs. They were either “grass burrs, sand burrs, or lawn burrs, which produce sharp, spiny seed pods that cling to clothing and fur.” And dog oh dog, do they ever! Even though we all had a great time playing in that surrounding area, I’m the only one with long hair. First, Mommy put water and soap on my face and spent 87 minutes removing the great big mats created by the hair clinging to the burrs. Then she looked down and saw that all my leg feathers were the same way. She said it probably took 887 minutes (or an hour) of constant combing to get them out of my pretty hair. It hurt when she tried to get the ones out of the hair on the top of my feet, so she tried real hard to take it easy there. I was a good girl and just stood on the kitchen counter while Mommy worked on this. At Mommy’s insistence and under her watchful eye, we stayed out of those areas after that.

Tomorrow we’ll have a couple more pictures and another story for you of our time in Fort Wayne!

Your schnauzer friend, Xena

22 thoughts on “Fort Wayne Adventures by Xena”

  4. Java Bean: “Ayyy, oh no, a big raccoon scouting the place out? Does he have a girlfriend? Hang on, I will fetch my mariachi instruments and we will be right over to drive them away …”
    Lulu: “I have had a few run-ins with those lawn burrs! They love my long furs, too. In fact just earlier today Dada picked one out of my chest fur. It sounds like you had a lot more of them there where you were staying than we do here, though!”

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  6. It’s good that mom knew how to take care of the burrs. Can’t have those on our babies. Your mom is smart.

    Yikes on all the noise in the attic. I would be scared.

    Thank you for joining the Happy Tuesday Blog Hop.

    Have a fabulous day and week. Scritches to the pups and a hug to mom. ♥

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  13. All she had was the grooming comb that we share and she keeps in her purse. She said if we were at home it would have been easier. She has the right tools there. She was very, very careful she didn’t hurt me, though. Mommy loves me! XOX Xena

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  18. Those burrs are such an awful pain…in so many ways! Glad that racoon didn’t fall through the ceiling, BOL!!

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