Harry: A Wilderness Dog Saga by Chris Czajkowski

Author:Chris Czajkowski
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Biography, British Columbia, Dogs, Outdoor life, Human-animal relationships
ISBN: 9781550178104
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Published: 2017-09-16T07:00:00+00:00

Chris and I spent the winter alone. We hiked for many hours, climbing high into the mountains behind the cabins. Chris mostly travelled on skis or snowshoes while I bounded around through the snow.

We had a lot of fun together. When I was a puppy, Chris would sometimes give me an old fuzzy bit of cloth to chew and pull. (It was actually the little coat that she’d got from the thrift store for me, which of course I very soon grew out of.) I never lost my love of fuzzy things, though, and when we were skiing, I would filch Chris’s hat or gloves from her pocket and run off into the unbroken snow with them. She could not travel fast through that deep, loose stuff, and when she struggled close, I would grab the nice fuzzy thing and run with it again. Chris would get mad, but it was so much fun for me I couldn’t resist.

In the spring we went on another Book Tour. We had a number of friends in the towns where Chris gave her slideshows, and we usually stayed with them when we passed through.

One family lived on the far side of the Vancouver mega-tropolis in a city called Burnaby. Miriam and Len enjoyed animals but the only ones they normally kept in their house were cats.

“These two are part of our family,” Miriam explained. “But this mother and her kittens are being fostered from the SPCA. When the kittens are old enough, the whole family will all be offered up for adoption.”

The animals were always drastically put out when we dogs arrived. We would be tied by the back door under an upper deck, the only place in the yard that was out of the rain—and it rains a lot in winter down there. The deck was the usual way the cats used to go in and out of the house but they were too frightened to go past us (with good reason, I might add). There was a convenient pillar that supported the steps up to the deck, which made a handy spot for fastening our chains. Chris would sleep on the pullout couch in the room just inside the door, so she could yell at us if we barked.

Taya had a great story about the time she and Sport stayed there. One morning Chris woke to find Taya lying on the mat in the porch as usual, her chain still fastened to the pillar. The pillar, however, was no longer supporting the steps. A raccoon had come into the yard during the night, and Taya had lunged for it, ripping the pillar away from the steps and taking it with her. The white paint on it had hidden the rot at the top and at the bottom. The raccoon climbed a tree to get out of the way and Taya went back to her mat, dragging the chain and the post with her. The funny thing was—Chris never heard a thing!

When Miriam found out that Chris was looking for another dog, she suggested we go to their local SPCA.

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