Ohhhh my goodness! This evening I truly thought the Pool Dude had left the side gate open, that Ruby had found it, and that she’d taken off for Yuma!
Couldn’t find her when I went to call her in for the night.
The back door to the house, in lovely weather like we’re having now, hangs open most of the time, so she comes and goes as she pleases. Consequently, the side gate to the yard is normally closed and latched.
But…Pool Dude was here. What does he know of dogs and of gates???
This evening she disappeared from view. Didn’t come to call. Ohhhhhhh sheee-ut!
And yes, the side gate was unlatched.
Ho-leeee shee-ut!!
Called and called.
No dawg.
Went inside to put on the clodhoppers, so as to go out through that gate and trot off down the road, calling and calling and calling…no doubt fruitlessly.
Just when I got back to the side yard, though: she surfaced.
No, she had NOT run away down the road.
THANK YOU, GOD!!!!
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Whew! After this, forgodsake, REMEMBER TO CHECK THAT GATE in the wake of any workman who stumbles into the yard!!!!!