Re: New Pictures- Reply GH

[Gina Heitz <brier@oregonsbest.com>]

At 10:15 AM 7/13/01 -0700, you wrote:
>Gidget must think that her babies are ready to start retrieving those
>balls! How cute. What a nice litter gina!
>
>                                 Ilene


Toys are a security thing with Gidget, if she is at all stressed or just 
happy, she will gather up toys and take them into a crate or behind 
something and tell the other dogs that they are hers...  In the kennel if 
she is out there and there are no toys around just look in the dog 
house...  One would think she would use these skills to help me around the 
house, but no... :-))

I have a big rubber maid tub that I keep baby puppy toys in that also 
doubles as my ready box, so when I cleaned it out before the pup's were 
born I put all the toys in a cardboard box in the bathroom that is in the 
whelping room.  Day two she must have gone in and rummaged through the box, 
as I found a Nylabone, a rope toy and three balls under the pig rail of the 
box under the shurpa pad safe and sound.

Even as a little tike in the litter she did this.  It was very common for 
her to greet us every morning after about 4 weeks of age talking with a toy 
in her mouth just quivering with excitement front paws up on the barrier, 
eyes big and smile going ear to ear and her butt doing the wiggle.  This is 
why she is called Gidget, she was the small pup in the litter [Gidget means 
little] and remember the charter that Sally Fields played: Gidget, ever 
notice how Sally Fields sort of looks like a golden?  That smile ear to ear 
and her soft but very dark brown eyes, and in many of those movies there 
was dancing.  There you have it...  Auntie Ellen actually came up with the 
name and I made the connection to Sally, though I am sure this is what 
Ellen was referring to.  Gidget The Widget Fidget....

Best,

Gina