The neighborhood dog co-op

 

Delaney has been settling into Mississippi life. For a while recently she would pace and whine and act pretty unsettled, but now she has apparently found a new routine. We have been dog-sitting her friend Rocky quite a bit, and the two of them enjoy being outside. Delaney likes to chase the squirrels and swim in the brackish bay water in the canal behind our house. But lately she and Rocky have been disappearing for a couple hours at a time. One evening Rocky came home wearing a purple Mardi Gras necklace. After chatting with our neighbor, we discovered that the dogs have been visiting her house and playing with her lab and her two small children. We had a good laugh, and now the dogs go back and forth, visiting the neighbor's house and their dog visiting ours, playing in which ever yard has the better toys that day. Too funny. A few times I have seen Daisy, the lab mix that belongs to our neighbor on the other side jump the fence to join them. I think Delaney still misses her jungle, the iguanas, and her dog friends in Luquillo, but she seems to be doing alright with her new group of play buddies. : )

Delaney, Rocky, and Duke