Border Banter with Benoit-Leipert: Fun with the fur-babies

We are dog people, as are so many others; and currently have two pups—Dozer, an 11-year-old husky malamute and Destiny, a four-year-old golden retriever.

In human years, he’s 77 and she’s 28.

The one thing they agree on is car rides, they both love that. Dozer especially loves to bark at the cows he sees along the way.

Dozer is motivated by one thing—food. A vet once told us that he shouldn’t be shaped like a coffee table—poor dude. We joke that he’s just a little ‘husky’.

thing totally different. Fetch.

She’ll fetch me literally anything that can be thrown, even if I haven’t thrown it. Ball, frisbee, plastic bottle, cardboard box, dirty sock.

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Writer Geoff Lee geoff@meridiansource.ca

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Jeannette Benoit Leipert

It’s amazing how two members of the same species can be so different.

Dozer likes to stay inside, Destiny loves to hang out in the yard—rain, shine, blizzard. She should deliver mail.

Dozer likes long naps and will fall asleep anywhere, Destiny wants to play all day.

One time we left a half-full tub of gummy bears on the end table, and the lid wasn’t quite snapped on. When we came home he was licking out the tub. I was worried that he’d get sick, but it didn’t seem to phase him at all. He must have an iron gut.

Destiny, on the other hand, is a live-wire— motivated by some -

She’s pretty good at frisbee too, she’ll snatch it out of midair and spin around before returning to the lawn, and prance back over to me with pride. Sometimes when she catches it mid-air she’ll do a victory lap around the yard before bringing it back. Show-off!

I could probably train her to bring me a cold drink, but I’m afraid if the dogs had access to the fridge there would be no food left in it!

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