Josh's+Snapshot



“Josh, I need to tell you something,” my mom called up stairs. “Go feed Ike.” Trudging outside, I put food in his bowl. Ike was a full-blooded Blue-healer with a very muscular build, and a really quick dog. As I walked to the gate Ike ran up to it like a bolt of lightning bolt and jumped five feet in the air! Earlier this month, he ran around the yard during spring break with us playing kickball. I opened the gate and he sprinted to the usual feeding place. After that, the memory of after we set up his gate flooded my head. We had just gotten Ike and set up the fence when mysteriously he started getting out. The problem was that there was a hole under the fence so we filled it with dirt and watched from the patio. He dug a hole through and got out. Later, we set up an electric wire so he couldn’t get out without getting shocked. We thought that would solve the problem until he ran and jumped strait off the ground, basically doing a back-flip, soared over the fence and landed on the ground no sweat! My family stared at each other dumbfounded. Surely he did not just jump over a four and a half foot fence! After a few more times of leaping the fence, he got the concept of the fence, and obeyed. Since then he hasn’t gotten out without our permission and we are a happy family. And a loyal dog he was!