John, when setting up this blog for me decided that “Puppies” would be a good category for me as I really love dogs…..all “puppies” to me, no matter how old they are.
I haven’t seen our nextdoor neighbor puppy for a few days now and am hoping that he was just away for the weekend. “Buddy” is really still a puppy at about 15 months old, but he is quite large already being a mix between a golden retriever and a yellow lab. He looks mostly like a lab and when he comes bounding to the wooden fence to see us, you’d swear he was going to knock the fence down! Bamm!! 
Unfortunately, Buddy doesn’t get much play time or “go for a walk time”, and walks around his yard or just sits there watching whatever he is able to see over the fence. That breaks my heart —-’cause when he sees Jack or me in our family room he comes up to the fence, stands up, and with those “puppy dog eyes” stares at us sadly. “Aren’t you coming out to play?” Often times we wave to him through the window or I will open the window and talk to him.
Many times though, if the snow isn’t too deep, I will go to the fence and he immediately searches for a ball, his favorite plaything. He will even drop a treat I give him if he can get the ball. He will retrieve the ball forever until I tell him: ” I have to go now, see you later”! Then he again stares at me from across his yard with the ball in his mouth and again I see those “sad puppy dog eyes”. I taught him to “toss the ball over” the fence so I don’t have to fight him for it. That works great except that he slobbers the ball like crazy trying to “throw it over”.
He’s a neat dog, needs and loves attention…..sure hope he still lives there.
