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After reading my story last week, my husband reminded me of another episode with Suzy Que the goat dog.

We lived on 68 acres and had fenced in about ¼ of an acre for our yard around the mobile home. One night as we were lying in bed just about to fall asleep here comes this Boom, Boom, Boom of a deep Great Pyrenees’ bark. This is a bark that easily transmitted through those weak, thin walls and readily seeped through the window that acted as our headboard. Covering our heads with the pillow was not doing it for us. At 2 in the morning, my husband Paul decided he had had enough and ran outside trying to chase Suzy away from the house where she could bark without sounding like she was outside our window.

She wouldn’t budge but thought it was a game. Paul came back in and put his shoes on and went back out to chase Suzy. Here was Paul running around the pasture chasing a white dog at two o’clock in the morning. He was throwing what ever he could grab at her. He came back in shoeless. This happened several times. I guess if you are into late night exercise this could be useful.

Actually Suzy was just doing her job. A Great Pyrenees has several barks and will use one bark in one location then run to another location and use a second sound then run to a third and use yet another bark. This is to confuse the coyotes and other dogs into believing that there is more than one dog in the pasture. It was just that Suzy was choosing all her locations around the house (probably because that was where the goats were hanging out).

After that every once in a while I would see Suzy out in the field carrying a shoe in her mouth.

Even to this day if you went walking around the field, you would come upon old shoes scattered around that Paul had thrown at Suzy in the middle of the night. Hmmm, I bet that is what happened to the pair of shoes that Paul could never find after we moved.