This girl is going to give me a heart attack yet! When we went on our afternoon walk today Dixie found a water moccasin by the lake. She is always out front, I am in the middle, and Sugar Bear in back when we walk the fence line of our property. Well as soon as she gets on the dam over the south end of the lake she start barking like crazy, some times it is a cat or a turtle so I walk over to check it out. Dixie growls at me so I stop a few feet away. I look down at Dixie's paws and there is about a 2 1/2 foot snake. I try to call her away and all she will do is stand there and bark at it. I rush Sugar Bear in to our shop so he is out of the way and then I run up the hill to get the hubby to get a gun and kill the snake. I know some people love snakes but after the loss of Rosie they make my blood run cold. So as soon as Dixie knows that Daddy is there she runs to check on me since I can can not get my breath from running up to the house. Anyway hubby kills the snake and Dixie runs around like she is 10 foot tall and so very proud of herself. I keep checking every inch of her body to make sure it did not strike her anywhere. They both just got a big bully stick; after all she did save me from a snake.Â
I am thinking of changing her name to steel magnolia!Â
Lisa
