Let me (Sugar) tell you about yesterday.

Big brother (Max) and I heard something on the other side of that tall brown wall-thing (fence) outside. Well, this drives us crazy hearing, even smelling, but not seeing or knowing what was there. The only solution is to attack that big brown wall or dig under. Now Dad (RoyalT) had stopped us from digging under before by adding to the wall base and putting heavy blocks (concrete) against the base, too. But this time, more than ever, we are both determined and working together. We manage to get 1 block out of the way and start digging under. We did not realize that digging under them would make the blocks drop. As we dig, I push under the blocks and fence until I have wedged just better than half-way. Now the blocks move, uh-oh, they move down on me turning me to my side.

Now I cannot move, I can barely breathe. Little brother (Scooter) goes inside to bark for Mom (Amitiel). But he doesn't bring her back with him. Now Max goes inside but he says he only barked once then comes back outside to me. Scooter goes back in to get Mom's attention. He says Mom came to see him standing in our room, left for a few minutes, then running back & out the big door to the backyard. (She is slow on the ramp.)

Now I hear Mom running, she has left her paws/feet unprotected. She kneels beside me on the ground and is moving blocks. But some do move and I still cannot move, at least I can breathe easier - some. Mom is worried. How much time has passed? Am I injured? I am breathing but not moving otherwise. Time for Mom to dig with her front paws/hands. I feel a soft thud on the ground as Mom (trying to shift) accidentally dropped to the ground in a sitting position. Guess she decided to try things from this spot. Soon she is digging more, trying to move more blocks, ordering Max and Scooter out of her way, and putting one foot on my butt in an attempt to ease me through the hole.

Scooter says "At this one point, Mom got up and took Max by his collar and showed him where she wanted him, then went back digging. Max did not stay there but crept-up beside Mom and lay there with his head on his front paws. That was my signal to start helping Mom dig. Guess Mom didn't want that either as she picked me up, shouted "No", and gently tossed me (17 lb Scooter) to a soft grassy spot.” Mom's in a panic!!

There is a block pressing on my back, why isn't Mom moving it? It hurts. Mom is slowing, I know she is weak, but please get that block off me. Also seems there is block almost standing on end that fell weird and has me even more wedged at the same time I am laying on part of it too. No way I can be pulled back through the hole into the yard seems I am still too tightly wedged. Finally Mom gets the block off my back. I kick-dig a couple of times but am still too tight in the hole. More digging by Mom and pushing me through the hole.

Mom stands-up (Max says this was a funny sight as she fell twice before she was standing). She runs for the gate. Slips through while making Max and Scooter stay back (NOT easy). Goes into the neighbor's over-grown yard. Fights her way through the tangles of weed (some taller than her and so thick she can't see the ground) to the spot on the fence line where she thinks I am. She is wrong and goes too far down. Now she looks down the fence to see where I am but sees me standing beside her and Scooter goes running out of the hole for a "freedom run". We make our way out of the weeds and Mom takes my collar. I walk faster than her and she tells me to stop after every other step.

Mom falls pulling me down beside her. She lets go my collar, but I wait till she is standing and reaches for my collar again before I run in the same direction that Scooter did. Mom calls me and unlike Scooter, I come to her when she calls. Now she opens the gate, stops Max from coming out and guides me in. Max and I run around each other. Mom has even come inside and goes to move all those blocks back into hole.

Scooter is still loose. Mom seems very worried, watches me run for a minute then goes in the house and out front to call Scooter. We hear her call for several minutes. Then she comes inside the house. Boy is she surprised to see all furbabies, even Scooter, in our room. She said it was time for a "cookie" - OUR FAVORITE THING!

But then she closed our door in the big door (making sure it was closed & locked) and we could not go outside again until Dad came home and fixed the hole where not even Scooter could get through. She then gives me a quick 'once over' says I am ok and leaves us to our afternoon nap.

Today Mom is moving very slow and acting sore. She even has a large white bandage on her arm and a small one on her big-toe and some funny looking blue areas all over. But, I am fine not even sore.