{"id":18487,"date":"2021-09-19T07:28:26","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T14:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=18487"},"modified":"2021-09-19T07:28:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T14:28:26","slug":"overnight-news-we-did-not-either-choose-our-next-home-to-please-a-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18487\/overnight-news-we-did-not-either-choose-our-next-home-to-please-a-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight News: We did not either choose our next home to please a\u00a0dog!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cAt a dog park, everyone has snacks \u2013 for their own<\/em> dogs. At the Duffeeland Dog Park, you can snarfle up snacks like a\u00a0buffet.\u201d<\/p><\/div>We are moving in forty-something days, and I only just now realized why: It’s Cleo’s other house we’re moving to.<\/p>\n

I was up early because that’s who I am, and Miss Cleopatra Chioux \u2013 the French Bulldog to whom I am part-time de facto factotum \u2013 woke up early to poop because that’s who she is.<\/p>\n

But she wouldn’t go back to sleep, and she had Cathleen and me playing her favorite game \u2013 “You Can\u2019t Catch Cleo!” \u2013 at 4 am.<\/p>\n

And the new house has a block wall. Where we are is wide open, and the New River \u2013 scorpions, snakes, owls, hawks, coyotes \u2013 is right there, so Cleo can never play off the lead. But at the new house, a dog who loves, loves, loves to run can fetch tennis balls until she collapses in exhaustion \u2013 perchance to dream of fetching more tennis balls.<\/p>\n

I’m losing the New River \u2013 Willie’s a mile-and-a-half south of us, in Rio Nuevo, and I’m leaving him there \u2013 but we will be fairly close to the Aqua Fria River, so I can continue to seek thorns big enough to penetrate Arizona-fortified bike tires. Close, too, to the Duffeeland Dog Park, which Odysseus loved and which I wrote a lot about in Sun City.<\/em> So: Even better: Socializing off-lead play, which Cleo \u2013 almost a year old \u2013 has never had enough of.<\/p>\n

She’s with us maybe 100 days a year, but she’s family. Real estate is kids and dogs, never doubt it. She is not how we chose our next home, I swear, but we might as well call it Cleo’s Playhouse.<\/p>\n

In other news:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

American Thinker:<\/strong> K\u201312: the Clutter is the Message.<\/a><\/p>\n

Andrea Widburg:<\/strong> While the Rally for January 6 prisoners was a bust, it still mattered a lot.<\/a><\/p>\n

Intellectual Takeout:<\/strong> Why It’s Time to Treat the Hammer and Sickle Like the Swastika.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cAt a dog park, everyone has snacks \u2013 for their own dogs. At the Duffeeland Dog Park, you can snarfle up snacks like a\u00a0buffet.\u201dWe are moving in forty-something days, and I only just now realized why: It’s Cleo’s other house we’re moving to. 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