My Dog Won...................

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Today was a red letter day in my little town. The abandoned house and shed next door finally came down. At 6am this morning a huge John Deere watchamacallit, with a big toothy bucket on a huge bendy arm thingy, came rolling in from the back alley and began demolition. It woke up my dog. The dog woke up me.............. Between the 'reverse alarm', hydraulic hissing, breaking glass, snapping of broken walls, collapsing of roofs, screeching of metal on metal, the pounding of the earth when the bucket hit and the dogs frantic barking.......... Well you can imagine that my lovely dream of bananas and cream was rudely interrupted! It took all day for the house and shed to get cleared, the lilac bushes and willow trees to come out and the dog to calm down. She ran back and forth inside her dog run barking up a storm. I know loud noises bother her, but she was downright frantic. Especially when the bucket began pulling the lilac bushes away from the long side of her dog run. I stood in my side door and took pictures of the demo, but finally the dog's distress had me putting on my shoes and going out into the back yard. Spunky came right over to me and nearly scaled her fence to get to me. She then turned back to the corner of her on the demo side and barked at me to follow her. The little scrap of humanity that was driving the dump truck away from the site with the debris was yelling at me to control my rabid animal. Spunky rabid? Give me a break! But as the action had brought several neighbours out of their houses, I went into Spunky's run and over to her in the corner. And then I saw what her concern was. The hubs and I had brought several Sugar Maple Tress back from Ontario 2 summers ago and planted them around our property. They are not native to this province and we missed the colors of the leaves in the fall. Spunky had watched those trees closely all the way from the nursery in Ontario to the planting of them weeks later in our yard. She KNEW they meant a lot to us. And now one was in danger of being dragged roots first from the ground! No wonder she was upset. I signaled the driver of the watchamacallit, and he left the Maple Tree alone. If not for Spunky I would have lost one of the Maple Trees.......... Now the side lot is bare and hopefully this summer the hubs and I can finally build the Senior Housing fourplex that we have had planned for the town since we moved here. And Spunky has won her verbal war with the watchamacallit machine of death and destruction. She's gonna miss the shade from the lilac bushes though! LOL Are your pets smarter than you? Mine is. LOL Click the pic....