Cockers in pursuit of an interesting little friend….or is it?
June 22, 2011 • Trends • Rescue •
By: Terry Humerickhouse
Six years ago on a warm spring day I was sitting at the kitchen table working on a model for my train layout.
All my foster cockers were laying froggie style spread around on the cool tile floor peacefully napping the morning away.
All this blissful tranquility was about to come to an abrupt and violent end as the sliding glass door was wide open and in flew a cricket landing square in the middle of all the 4 cockers. I thought to my self “boy did you take a wrong turn!”
Molly the biggest at a whopping 39 lbs was first to react with a single yelp alerting the others to this monstrous intruder and lunging at it causing the cricket to hop to the safety of the center of the underneath of the table which was surrounded by all the chair legs making a safe fortress for the cricket.
All of the cockers now in attack mode were bumping the chair legs trying their best in vain to devour the cricket. The table was shaking like a 9.5 quake causing my open Pepsi can to crash to the floor, spewing foaming Pepsi everywhere.
While I was yelling at the madly barking profusion of wildly vibrating Nubbie tails
” ITS A CRICKET NOT AN ANACONDA”
The cricket made a bold leap for freedom out from under the table landing in the middle of the open floor and with 2 short hops was under the washing machine Molly did a rapid 180 and dove after it, sliding head first {like baseball’s pete rose does into home plate } and crashing headlong in to the front of the washing machine. Her 39lbs and hard head causing a dent that remains to this day.
It ended a quickly as it began with the 3 of them laying froggie style in front of the washing machine , nubbie tails dusting the floor in eager anticipation of the posibility of renewed play, while Redd Furr happily completed lapping up the remaining pepsi.
Learn more and how you can help cockers find their fur-ever homes: Gulf Coast Cocker Rescue or gulfcoastcsr@hotmail.com
