“Come on slackers! I don’t have all day! There are squirrels to chase and things to smell!”

“Mom, haven’t you learned about huskies off leash yet? Sheesh. Sometimes I think you only bring me along to use me for my herding skills.”

Or not…  As the Internet can see below, Loki is hardly herding Juno. Instead they hear and smell potential friends in the trail above. Before you know it, both dogs go investigate and my “herding” dog forgets who he is.

“Principessa! Do you smell what I smell?”
“Yes sir, big boy! Let’s do it!”

And here are the happy boys that they found:

“Oh boy these are my peeps! GSDs! They kind of look like me, but bigger!” (And furrier.)

“Listen tan boy, I told you I’m NOT that way! I only go for girls. Usually chi-wow-wows.”

“That’s right tan boy, go to your momma for some kisses. I don’t kiss the boys!”

“Hey, dude! It’s like we’re long lost cousins. Or something.”

Ever the charmer he is, Loki presents his stinkin’ end for a scratch. “Ya, that’s right, a little to the left there sweetie pie.” 

“Just cuz your boy came back, doesn’t mean you have to stop cupcake!”

And where was the sibe in all of this? She came, flirted briefly with the boys and then did what huskies do best:

find trouble!

First to a tour of their humble property that included a stop on the infamous trippy-trap,NitWit Bridge. NitWit Bridge is a 90 foot suspension bridge  built on top of a fallen redwood tree. Though the bridge is not officially engineered, it’s quite stable and the cables are tied into 15 foot cement piers The pirate netting was added later to keep doggies from freaking out when trying to cross the bridge.  The bridge was built to maintain a walking path to our well and our waterline runs from the well under ground and eventually runs under the bridge itself!

Juno asks Max, “Dude, do they, like have, like, bridges like this in your neighborhood?”
Max responds, “I didn’t know Siberians could speak Valley Girl!”

Nice save Max!

Next Loki and Juno took him to their favorite hang-out around the house, their tree house. Juno is smitten with Max, while Loki tries to pick up a few of his gentlemanly behaviors.

“Hey Max, you’re the cheese! How about a little Wobba Wonki action,” asks Loki.
“Big Boy, can’t you see? Max is much too refined to play Wobba Wonki with a barbarian!”
Meanwhile, Max cleaverly avoids getting in the middle of a quarrel and compliments them on their home. “Nice crib you have here kids. I should get my manager to build me one of these,” says Max.

Ut oh. Wild Dingo suspects Max’s mom is wondering if she should have detoured his visit to Northern California!

Thanks for visiting Max! Hope you had a lovely time. We certainly enjoyed your visit! We apologize for the late report. Our writers are grossly overpaid. We just can’t get good help here at Wild Dingo.

Loki, Juno and I have known Sugar for a while now and met on the Internet when Sugar’s mom, Crazy Lady, commented on this post because we shared the same breed of dog: a Formosan Mountain Dog. Loki and Sugar had similar temperaments thus, Sugar’s mom, Crazy Lady and I commiserated. But over the last two years, the two of us prevailed and have watched each other’s dogs grow into wonderful…cough, cough… wonderful, well-behaved canine citizens.

When Crazy Lady first shared with me her health issues, at the time mainly seizures, she said something about Sugar going berzerk just before one of them. I think I can safely say that I planted the seed that Sugar was alerting and that she needed to get her trained and certified and ASAP, because Sugar can work and that’s what Formosan Mountain dogs do best. They are “busy” dogs and love to work.

Well, Crazy Lady got Sugar trained and certified, but above what I ever dreamed. I only expected this little doggie to tell Crazy Lady when she was going to have a seizure so Crazy Lady could make herself safe. But she does so much more! This little doggie is so strong, she carries like 387 lbs of Crazy Lady’s medicines and purse items. Crazy Lady must have a lot of lipstick because I refuse to believe she has 386 lbs of medicines. It just can’t be.

Sugar also acts like a cane for Crazy Lady! Huh? How in the world does a  30-something pound dog hold up a PERSON? All I can surmise from having a similar cracked-up, err, I mean, highly-work-motivated Formosan dog with lots of muscles is that Sugar is built for strength and can probably hold up about 787 lbs if she had to. Between you and me, I see Sugar at Gold’s Gym pumping iron in the wee hours of the morning while Crazy Lady is still asleep.  Geesh, that dog NEVER stops working!

And there’s brains behind all that brawn that Sugar carries.  Sugar can alert and get help for Crazy Lady’s seizures. Personally, I think Sugar Sweet is far more qualified than any of the required quacks, I mean, doctors that Crazy Lady has been forced to see in the “system.”  If you don’t believe me, read here or here.

You know what’s even more amazing about Sugar? Before she met Crazy Lady, she was tossed away in Taiwan. On the streets. Abandoned. Alone, starving. Somebody didn’t want her. She had been trained as it was obvious she knew some commands. But someone intentionally threw this dog away, like useless trash.

When Sugar met Crazy Lady, she was shy and frightened but she blossomed into a wonderful companion pet. When life took an unexpected rough turn for Crazy Lady’s health, Sugar rose to the occasion and quickly grew into exactly what Crazy Lady needed to live safely, and sanely!

Can you believe how lucky Crazy Lady is to get a dog like this? Thousands of dollars are spent on training medical service and seizure alert dogs yearly and fate dropped her in Crazy Lady’s lap.

Sugar is not only fulfilling her destiny of being an outstanding working dog, but she is living proof of how a discarded then rescued dog can not only blossom into a loving companion pet but into an invaluable partner.

Visit Sugar Sweet’s blog to read more about her. But for now, she needs your vote, so go to Mango Minster Hard Working Girls and vote for Sugar Sweet NOW!