More about Jack

Here's a picture to show how awesome Jack is.

This is the picture that every one thinks is the best. I think that all of the pictures we have of Jack (there's like over one hundred) are the best. Some of them might be blurry, but that's to show how fast Jack is.

No matter how awesome Jack is, he still gets in trouble. In fact, for almost about a month he has been running off to the strip mall we have next door, the people are nice and sometimes help me with finding Jack. He has even gone across a very busy street! An old couple helped us out by distracting Jack, it worked.
This morning, Jack ran away (he mostly runs away from me) to the other side of the mall. I laid him down till he calmed down so I don't get bit, then I picked him up and carried him home.

R.I.P Killer

Killer has been missing since Thursday, he wouldn't of been gone this long...he never has. He's terrified of cars, he couldn't of been ran over. He does get into fights with rabbits and other cats, though. Then we do have hawks, owls, and eagles; they will sometimes fly off with a cat.
Jack has noticed that Killer is gone. They used to roll each other over and such.
Here's a pic of Killer and Jack together.
Got to get back to school, three more days until I just HAVE to be done.

Jack, Gordon and my schooling

Last Saturday, K.C., Jared, Dad, and I were playing the card game Rummy. While that was happening, Jack and Gordon were playing in the kitchen. Gordon made up this game of lunging at Jack. Jack, however, was ducking from Gordon's lunging. Gordon was actually belly laughing! He rarely belly laughs, and we were waiting to see when, and what his belly laughing would be.

Then later that night, Jack was laying in the kitchen out of the way, along came Gordon and he lunged over and on top of Jack, he didn't growl, bite, or snap, he didn't do anything. He just laid on his side with his head out of the way while Gordon was kissing him.

Jack understands that Gordon doesn't know much about dogs except they bark, howl, lick your face and bug bites. I knew better and I didn't treat him that nicely. Jack sometimes can get carried away and knock a little kid down, but that's only because he's excited.

Jack has been getting out of his yard and going to the bar next door. They have a wood pile and Jack says there's chipmunks in there. I have to teach him that I'm the boss, not him.

I think I'm almost done with school, I still have Grammar and math. Today, I'm going to work from 8:00a.m. to whenever I'm like, half way through the next unit.
*GASP* Oh no, a few more minutes till I have to start school. I still have to do chores and eat.
well, bye!

Miscellaneous

Today I will finish bible, now all I have to do is memorize Proverbs 3: 17-35. Then tomorrow I'll do Grammar. I have to finish school by the end of July, look at your calendar...not very far away, is it?



Earlier today Jack caught a baby blue jay, it was learning how to fly. OK,OK it was defenseless, but I'm always on Jack's side when it comes to hunting. Jack has only caught two bird in his whole life, we usually protect the birds from Jack. But we can't do anything about Killer, he catches them in the early morning hours when we're asleep, he's an outside cat.

For a couple of weeks, it started on Independence day, Jared (24) and I have been playing baseball. I call it Organic Baseball, because our yard has so many trees and bushes it's kind of hard to play it. But if you're the batter and you hit the ball in to the wild garden you'll be happy that your playing organic baseball.

Our bases are three cement blocks and a broken Frisbee as home base. First base is in front of a park bench, second base is the pitchers mount, and third base is a maple tree that makes a triangle with home and 2nd base.

Well, my break is over so I guess I need to get back to work so I can get done and play video games!!! I'm hungry too.

Our Cat Killer

Killer, the Siamese, has always been jealous of Jack. When Jack, the puppy, was sleeping Killer would sneak up on him and swat him.
This is how we named Killer:

It started, when I was 3 years old, Dad and I were walking out in the woods, on a Sunday morning, looking for any critters that we could catch and keep. We found Killer sleeping in our brush pile. He was (is I should say) so cute! Anyway, we were not very sure what gender he was, so we waited till we would know. We used to catch chipmunks in pipes and let them lose in the bathroom with the cats. (at that time we had two cats :Homer the manx, and Killer) Killer was still a little kitten then. He found what he thought was a chipmunk ( it was really a washcloth!) and walked away with it with it trailing between his legs and growling!
Now Killer kills real animals like birds, moles, and mice. We find 2 or 3 every morning.

Jack's favorite places to hunt

Every chipmunk's favorite place to hide is in the pipes. When Jack finds them, he yips and yaps until we come to help get it out. The chipmunk has no chance at all, as soon as a part of it's body is out, Jack grabs it,shakes it, then it's done for.
It all takes like 3-4 seconds, and while that's happening I'm cheering Jack on saying, "GOOD BOY, JACK, GOOD BOY!!"







This is the junk yard, Jack found a couple of chipmunks there. Also, in the center background is a mulberry tree, we have three of them.














Here is the brush pile we built for Jack. This is also where we found our cat killer. (I'll blog about him later) In here, there has been mostly rabbits.

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