ANOTHER 'VOLUNTEER'

...And this one is camped on my doorstep and looking in the door. She (I think it's a 'she') showed up here in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, when she about gave Chuck a heart attack when she snuck up behind him as he was outside getting ready to leave for work before daylight. He mistook her for a coyote at first. Then yesterday afternoon, Patti-Jo was throwing a fit outside. From her frantic and vicious tirade, I naturally assumed that a whole gaggle of drunks had descended upon our backyard again, and got off the couch to go see. Actually, I wondered if all the rain had a rattlesnake looking for a new home or something. But she had caught sight of this dog, and was peeking at her between the corner of the house and the trellis in the backyard, from the safety of the porch. I went to the fence, and she came up, cautiously. She was dry then and really bushy furred - a Cowdog/Australian Shepherd type. She has a collar, so I guess I will put an ad in the paper, but I doubt it'll do any good. When I fed Nissa last night, she saw me, and came into the yard. So I put a few extra piles of cat food on the driveway, which I do anyway for the lame tom cat and some of the backyard cats who sometimes come to the front. I assume she ate some of that. She was at the front door this morning, so Shabree and I fed her and she snarfed it right up. Poor dog. She doesn't bother Nissa or any other front yard cats.