Kirkwoods' Jetta Helps Rescue lost Dog

While out driving around and checking out RV parks, we stopped at a viewing area at the south end of the bridge near Gold Beach. While stopped there, we noticed traffic was pretty well stopped at the bridge with just an occasional vehicle getting through. Just as Ken was putting Cooper back into the car, a little black terrier/spitz mix came running toward us from the highway……………

For the past five minutes, traffic was stopped and several folks were trying to rescue this little stray dog. We kept him from going back toward the highway, and then he decided to take refuge under our car even with Cooper inside barking his lungs out.

One of the ‘rescuers’ crawled part way under our car and was able to grab the little dog, only after enduring a pretty severe bite from the poor little thing. The dog didn’t belong to any of the dozen or so people who had all come in to the rest area to help with the dog, but the man who finally collared the orphan worked for the animal shelter in Gold Beach and said he was not about to let the little dog get away and most surely get hit by a car. So with blood dripping from his hand, he stood and cuddled and kissed this little frightened dog. The story had a happy ending.

We left home on the 27th as planned and spent the first night parked in Cassie’s parents’ driveway in Stayton, OR. We were treated to a yummy dinner and had a good visit with Dick and Joan, plus Cassie and Greta who were there to have Christmas with her parents. Oh yes, we were also hosted by Bailey, their five-year-old labradoodle who is one of the coolest dog I have ever seen. She stands about as tall as Cooper, but probably weighs half again as much. She has never eaten her kibble out of a dish, but has two or three kongs that she takes to her owners to be filled with food. She is a darling.

And now there is a labradoodle in the Kirkwood family. Yesterday, Keith, Janet, and the girls found Abbey at a farm in Lancaster, PA and promptly took her home with them. She is three months old and everybody seems to already be head over heels in love with her.

Jeff and Bev joined us here in Brookings on Sunday, and we are parked at Harris Beach state park with a front-on view of the Pacific. Stunning. The four of us managed to stay up until midnight to have our new year champagne and then trundled off to bed. We will be here until Friday or Saturday when Jeff and Bev leave, and then we will proceed on down the road toward Quartzite. But we don’t have to be there until about the fifteenth, so we can tarry along the way.

Cooper is perfectly happy and has laid claim to his rightful place – stretched out on the sofa with an occasional foray to the dinette to beg for a cookie.

Happy New Year to all. Ciao