ROSIE
The Considine Family canine
companion
"If you think you're so important,
try ordering someone else's dog
around."
Cowboy wisdom
Rosie is a purebred Labrador Retriever born 12/31/97. Rosie's mother is fox red, and her daddy, Keepsake's Drift'N Dickens, is yellow. Rosie is officially registered with the American Kennel Club as yellow although she is really very red. Her official name is Keepsake's Ramblin' Rosie D (for Dickens.) Keepsake is the breeder in Renfrew, near Pittsburg, PA, where we got Rosie. Rosie is beautiful and even has red eyelashes!
Rosie's daddy, Keepsake's Drift'N Dickens
Above is one of my favorite pictures of Rosie. She is 7 months old in this picture but now she weighs about 58.8 pounds (her full size), staying svelte on 2 daily cups of Pro Plan's Adult Lite Chicken and Rice, plus human food that she sneaks. Rosie nearly weighed 75 pounds at one point. Unbeknowst to us, Labradors have a tendency towards obesity, so we're very careful with her weight now. She, however, does not starve!
Rosie is very good at her job: stealthily looking for and eating human food, resting, getting in the way, and going for rides. We never actually see her eating the human food, but she leaves the kids' dishes behind so clean, we could put them back in the cupboard. She acts like a homeless, starving dog sometimes, licking her empty food bowl during the day. She looks particularly hilarious when we let her outside, and she sometimes looks in at us through our French doors that open out to our side yard. She once devoured a half pound of American cheese and a whole load of oat bread. (We left Rosie and the groceries in the car when we ran in to another store.) She actually showed no interest in dinner that night! She also once consumed an entire box of gourmet dog snacks that she got as a Christmas gift.
Two of her strangest snacks were mothballs and homemade candles. I placed mothballs around my petunias to keep the rabbits from eating the flowers. (Rabbits and neighborhood cats know Rosie is a pushover in her own yard and come and go as they please.) We suspect Rosie ate them because one day the mothballs were there, and the next day, every one was gone. Rosie also ate 2 candles that Lucy made for me. Left nothing but a few crumbles of red and blue wax and one wick.
Rosie shredded one of Lucy's poopy diapers in the back seat of our
minivan! (We were out and had to do an "emergency change"
in the car.) Gross! I did not speak to Rosie for 2 days. As usual
when I am upset with her, she tries everything to get me to touch her,
like putting her head under my hand. This is one of those occasions
where Rosie gets called a name (see below.)
"Jerk" is most appropriate in this instance.
Rosie has a phobia of the basement stairs. She just refuses to climb those stairs. She cries and barks until someone, i.e., Mama, carries her, a 60 pound spoiled Labby, up the stairs. Rosie often ends up in the basement because she is neurotic about Mom. She follows me all around the house, fearing I will leave without her somewhere. She ends up in the basement when I do laundry. It's quite funny when I go up and down stairs doing laundry, forgetting things, doing chores -- there's Rosie, panting right behind me (and getting in my way.)
Update on the basement stairs
issue (March 2002):
Rosie won. I tried letting her in the
basement until she came up on her own. Never did; she would just
bark like a jerk until she got on my very last nerve and I carried her up
the stairs. Now I stop the van on the driveway and open the door for
her like a chauffeur. She jumps out and goes to the back door.
When I get inside the house, I let her in. Sigh...
Rosie is the most docile animal on earth. You would think she is 10 years old when she's only 5! When we first brought Lucy, our daughter, home from the hospital, Rosie was a jealous toddler, shredding up tissues when she could. Now she is past that. Lucy stuck her hands in Rosie's mouth, climbed on her, pulled her fur, and Rosie just took it all. You would think Rosie would have walked away! She's the best! Sabrina is very gentle with Rosie. We just had a third child on 12-23-02, and the other day I propped the baby on Rosie and Rosie stayed there for 10 minutes while I took pictures. Rosie, Lucy, Sabrina, Baby Tim, and I are usually always together. Often you will find our 5 heads within two square feet!
Rosie, Sabrina, Lucy
Someone once said to me she really likes labs. She said they look so pathetic and they think they're small, and they probably wish you would pick them up and put them on your lap. I couldn't agree more! :)
Things I
have been called
Rosierama
Rose
A jerk
Jelly belly bird legs
"The dog" (by non dog-lovers)
Nervous Nelli
Neurotic about Mom
Pig
Stealth dog
Hoss
Red girl
Big chicken
Lard ass (when she descends stairs)
A loser
Things I
have eaten or chewed
Lucy's
poopy diaper
Sabrina's poopy diaper
2 wax candles Lucy made for Mom, leaving 1 wick
Mothballs
My own poop
Soap
Mom's razors in the tub
Toilet paper
Whole loaf of oat bread
All of Lucy's snacks & meals left unattended
Hemlock trees in my yard
Half pound of American cheese
Whole box of gourmet dog biscuits from Grandpop at Xmas
Lucy's infant wrist rattle
Mom's houseplants
Dad's new Greg Norman polo shirt
$100 worth of Mom's unused Clarins makeup
Mom's orthotic inserts
A handcrafted wooden clock that Grandpop made for Mom
4 1/2 out of 5 sweet potatoes cooling outside for Thanksgiving
Rosie's
photo album
(Click on
thumbnail for larger picture)
A note from Rosie's Mama: Rosie is the most beautiful dog. Though I try to capture her "thoroughbred look" in photographs, most of the time she looks quite pathetic, as you can see in the pictures below... I have ordered the pictures with the most recent ones first.
I also apologize that some of the pictures are so large! I scanned many of Rosie's pictures in years ago when I was first learning how to create webpages and use a scanner, and I have since had 2 beautiful daughters and a son, who also have their own websites. Poor Rosie is low man on the totem pole. I'll fix her pictures some day...
What an animal! Enjoy!
Rosie has manners!
Visit Rosie's other friends
Tammy's Dog House
(a memorial to a faithful black lab mix)
Princess
(an adorable yellow lab)
Nala
(a beautiful fox-red
lab)
Tank
(a strong, gorgeous yellow lab)
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