Category: Lili

Today our Lili is five years young! Hard to believe it! Time has flown! Our little St. Patrick’s Day Pup will get a special dog food molded cake with five mini dog bones for candles! Bless you, Lili, you really are a gem.

 

We found that Lili would have been great fun in a Circus. She loves to run and jump and run some more. Winter is her favorite time, as she enjoys being able to leap through the snow at full speed. It’s like watching a deer.

Lili is the sweetest girl and has developed a wonderful relationship with our smallest dachshund. The two are devoted to each other and sleep curled up together a great deal of the time at night.

She is amazingly intelligent. She follows commands and has become a retriever. Let me explain. If one of the dachshunds is out and is taking too long, I will say, “Lili, go get Anneliese” and she will run off and herd her back to the door. She seems to love having jobs to do.

Likewise,  my husband  has begun going outside to exercise and of course do some snow shoveling, Lili will go with him. She never leaves his side and keeps a close watch. She is closely attuned to him.

While I am crocheting in the evenings she is either at my feet or in my loveseat next to me. She follows me everywhere I go and she is so loving, at times it brings tears to my eyes.

She is also the most beautiful White Shepherd we have ever had. No kidding. She is nearly completely white, with a fabulous black nose and nails. Her eyes are perfectly brown and her coat is a full, short tight coat, with soft fur.

Her best little friend is a four-year-old girl that is our neighbor’s grandniece. She will stand on their balcony and call “Lili” and Lili happily runs to greet her, pulling up just before she gets to her, so as not to knock her over.
She also loves our two grandchildren who wanted Bolt Dogs for Christmas that looked like Lili.

Lili rescued me on January 12th of this year, when a man broke into my house during the day. He made it to the top of our cellar stairs, but the door was locked and Lili was fiercely barking and was between me and the door. She saved me that day!

So here we are, our darling Lili is five and all grown up and settled down. Knowing she is the last large dog we will have, makes her all the more special to us.

Happy Birthday, Lili!

I woke this morning and walked out into the kitchen to discover that poor Lili had been sick in the night. I mean, really sick. She had somehow managed to hit every throw carpet in the kitchen, and almost every inch of the floor.

Before I even had my first cup of coffee, I had to clean everything up and mop the floor after. I also got all four rugs into the washer and then I came up, washed up and sat down with my coffee.

Despite knowing I had done a thorough cleaning, all I could smell was dog sick. In self-defense, I lit a candle and sprayed Fabreeze and prayed for a change in the wind! LOL!

Fortunately, Lili recovered quickly, and none of the other dogs got sick. I suspect that Lili has been drinking out of the Spring on our property. Not exactly good for her tummy!

As I write Lili is curled up next to me. She was so upset this morning and acted rather ashamed of herself. Tonight she is acting so sweet and loving. I think this is her attempt to make it up to me. I’m just glad she is feeling better!

 

Today our Lili is four years young! Hard to believe it! Time has flown! Our little St. Patrick’s Day Pup will get a special dog food molded cake with four mini dog bones for candles! Bless you, Lili, you really are a gem.

 

We found that Lili would have been great fun in a Circus. She loves to run and jump and run some more. Winter is her favorite time, as she enjoys being able to leap through the snow at full speed. It’s like watching a deer.

Lili is the sweetest girl and has developed a wonderful relationship with our smallest dachshund. The two are devoted to each other and sleep curled up together a great deal of the time at night.

She is amazingly intelligent. She follows commands and has become a retriever. Let me explain. If one of the dachshunds is out and is taking too long, I will say, “Lili, go get Anneliese” and she will run off and herd her back to the door. She seems to love having jobs to do.

Likewise, this year my husband had to have part of his foot amputated, and since he returned home and has begun going outside to exercise and of course do some snow shoveling, Lili will go with him. She never leaves his side and keeps a close watch. She is closely attuned to him.

While I am crocheting in the evenings she is either at my feet or in my loveseat next to me. She follows me everywhere I go and she is so loving, at times it brings tears to my eyes.

She is also the most beautiful White Shepherd we have ever had. No kidding. She is nearly completely white, with a fabulous black nose and nails. Her eyes are perfectly brown and her coat is a full, shorter, with soft fur.

Her best little friend is a three-year-old girl that is our neighbor’s grandniece. She will stand on their balcony and call “Lili” and Lili happily runs to greet her, pulling up just before she gets to her, so as not to knock her over.
She also loves our two grandchildren who wanted Bolt Dogs for Christmas that looked like Lili.

So here we are, our darling Lili is four and all grown up and settled down. Knowing she is the last large dog we will have, makes her all the more special to us.

I have to tell you all about our wonderful Lili. Lili will be turning four years old March 17th. Yes, she is a St. Patrick’s Day girl! At nearly four, she is a real beauty, and we have found, she is smart as a whip. And we didn’t even know this!

During this cold, cold, winter, when we have had snow and ice and sleet and rain, the dackels still need to go out and do their thing, and Jack will snow-blow a path for them,  around the house, as well as in the back yard. Greta and Arnie pretty much stay in the back yard, but every once in a while Anneliese either takes too long, or runs around the house to the garage.

It’s a difficult thing because it’s been below zero and I do not want the dackels to freeze out there, but having a fever, I am not always up to running out to bring them back. Although I have done this a time or two.

What we discovered is that Lili has a special gift. She is a herding dog! If you command her, “Lili go get Anneliese!” She will run out the door, follow the path and herd Anneliese (or Arnie or Greta) back to the house to come in.

Not only does she do this on command, but if she cannot find the dackel in question on her first pass, she will keep circling until she either finds the dackel in question, or we call her in.

This morning it was Anneliese. She had gone around the house and then she came up the stairs shortly after I let Lili out to go get ’em. Well Lili was frantic to find the little dog. She ran the path twice before I could get her attention and get her in.

The first thing she did was go over to Anneliese and sniff her to make sure all was well. And this really amazed me.

Lili really is an incredible dog and she loves it when you give her jobs to do. Do you think I can teach her to do the dishes?

Today our Lili is three years young! Hard to believe it! Time has flown! Our little St. Patrick’s Day Pup, will get a special dog food molded cake with 3 mini dog bones for candles! Bless you Lili, you really are a gem.

I had a shocking thing happen to me today when we returned from the grocery store. I had walked the dackels first, when we got in, and later Hubby was breaking up ice on the patio and Lili went out to be with him.

I set about to put things away, and I went into our bedroom and I glanced out the front window in the bedroom and there was Lili running around on the frozen lake below with two people!

I was so upset! We had this happen years ago when Fritz was young. I had put on my robe, boots, coat, hat and gloves, and marched down carrying a leash and clipped it on Fritz’s collar, dragging him home, yelling at him and telling him what a bad boy he was! After that incident, Fritz never left the yard.

Today, I was preparing to get mad at Hubby for not watching Lili, and had grabbed my coat, when I went to the back door and opened it. To my complete shock, in walked Lili! I swear she was smiling!

The dog down on the ice was not Lili at all, but another dog (an impostor I think!). Or maybe it was a memory, I thought!

Then I heard from my neighbors who saw Lili down on the ice. I hated to break it to them, that in fact, Lili had been home the entire time!

Lili has gotten to be an amazing girl. Almost all the time now she stays right at home and she never goes down near the road.

What a great friend she has become!

I was thinking about Lili the other day and realized she would be two on her birthday, which is today. St. Patrick’s Day!

Truthfully, I thought she was older, because it seems we have had her for a very long time. Lili, with all her health issues and challenges.

But she is doing better now on her grain free diet, and the fact that Hubby takes her out for hours at a time, where she can run in the field, and burn off all that energy.

Lili is a sweet dog. I don’t think there is a mean bone in her entire body. But, when she was ill with her grain sensitivity, she wasn’t fun to be around.

So, Happy Birthday, dearest Lili.