RICKY

Last night we had a pretty bad scare. Actually we have had a few scares with Ricky lately. More due to health issues. A couple months ago he had worms, which was disgusting, then last week he had an overdose of dog bones thanks to Jake. Now we keep the dog bones on top of the refrigerator! Last night we lost Ricky. We always put Ricky outside when we eat dinner because I don't want Jake to feed Ricky all his food. After I put the boys to bed I thought Ricky was still outside. I opened the back door and he didn't come, sometimes he hides on the side of the house. If we call his name and close the door he comes running to the door. He didn't come. So we got the flashlight and looked on the side of the house, nope not there. Brianna had come home earlier and was getting something for her Dad so she left the front door open for awhile. I was sure that is when Ricky got out. He usually goes outside and just sniffs around, walks down the street. He is not a runner thank goodness. So I went up to tell Brianna and we got in the car to drive around. We drove around our complex very slowly twice looking and calling his name. We couldn't find him. Brianna was making me very nervous while she was saying things like what if we don't find him, what are you going to tell James, what if he got out the gate, mind you Ricky did NOT have a collar on. He never wears one. I hate hearing the jingling of the collar. Since we couldn't find him I thought well let's head out the gate. Hoping he didn't get hit by a car. I really didn't think he was out there, I didn't think he would get out that far. But Brianna insisted. So we drove up and down, looking and calling his name. Couldn't find him. Then I really got nervous, started to tear up. Brianna kept asking how we are going to find him, it was making me feel worse. We came home and I looked up online how to find your dog. We told Craig we couldn't find him and he said, make some signs. Brianna and I went right upstairs to make some signs. Craig went out to drive around the block. As Brianna and I were making the signs, we had a picture loaded up and LOST DOG written and we hear Craig come home. I thought that was pretty fast. I listened carefully to see if I could hear him talk to Ricky. He came in the door and said HE FOUND HIM! Some neighbor lady was walking him! She found him at 5:00 and it was now 10:30!! So it wasn't when Brianna came home. Brianna and I actually weren't even home! I was picking her up from track practice. SO we have no idea how he slipped out! Ahem ahem.... The lady said he was a very good dog, very well trained. They didn't have a dog so she got a rope as a leash and walked him around to see if anyone was out looking for him! Thank goodness she did that. She had done it earlier but no one knew whose dog it was! She thought she would try one more time for the night and then she was going to make signs in the morning. So glad we didn't have to do that! Now Ricky has a collar on and it will not be coming off!!!