Inez

She's going to get mentioned quite a bit, so she needs her own post, so you know who I'm talking about... Inez is my Australlian Shepard. I adopted her when she was about three and a half years old. She has no manners, and she likes to eat garbage, I actually think she prefers it. She loves people, she really loves me. When I'm outside, she gets really wiggley, and doesn't watch where her bum is going, or who it might run into, or knock over. She usually knocks Wesley over. She thinks she needs to give stinky (from trying to eat things she shouldn't) kisses to everyone who is short enough to have a face about the same height as hers. If she's off her lead, and I'm not outside, she leaves the farm. Headed towards town. She'll head to the park, or the ball field, if there are kids around. If it's during the week, and kids are in school, she heads to the bar/restaurant, to beg for scraps. She's how I met a friend, and she often shows up at another friend's house. My friend will return her to the farm, while Inez rides in the passenger seat of the car. She knows what she's doing when she heads to town.
If we're late eating dinner, it's often because I've had to head off to town, looking for Inez, because she suckered me into believing she'd stay home. We used to take Crespo, our other dog, with us, on our search for Inez. But Crespo loves to ride in the back of the pickup, and we think she might have been telling Nezzy to run off, so we'd go looking. Crespo would get to ride out and back, and Inez would get to ride back, a win-win. Now, Crespo has to stay while we search.
Spring is "Nezzy"s favorite time of year. The seed business keeps the farm busy, I'm outside a lot, she's free all day. It's not boring, she sticks around. Fall is also busy, and she's free quite a bit in the fall, but she chases bunnies that are running from the combine, and she doesn't pay attention, and she's almost been run over, twice. So, if there is a combine near, she's tied up.