Scooby Doo of 14 Mile Island, the best dog ever!
 
 
 


Scooby is an English Springer Spaniel,
the kind of dog you see in old British hunting portraits.
 

14 Mile Island is an island on Lake George in upstate New York. We have a summer house there, and it's basically doggy heaven.

Our view


The path


The house (partially concealed by trees, but in the middle of the picture)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


There she is on her cot... or rather, my cot...
on the island for which she was named. For the record, I slept on the floor.


Here she is showing off her designer bandana.


There's another bandana.... note the creepy eyes.
That's not just in the picture, it happens. A lot.


The furniture used to be forbidden, until we snuck into the house once and discovered that she had been using it all along... just not when we were home.  Since then, pretty much anything goes.

Well, Dr. Freud, I'd say it all started when I was a puppy.


She's as good a swimmer as she is a runner... which is pretty darn good.


Since we don't hunt with our hunting dog, we play with tennis balls a lot.


My Uncle once watched us toss the ball into the lake for about an hour, and then he asked, "Doesn't she ever get tired?" We replied, "We don't know, we've only had her for a year." Her record is about 6 hours, and even then it was the HUMAN that got tired.


Out of curiosity, we once had my brother jump into the lake with a tennis ball in his mouth. She followed him, stuck her claws onto his chest,
and tried to pry it out.

Not kidding.

Scooby Doo, the best dog ever, I officially miss you.

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