Hi everyone. I love seeing the relationships you all have with your pets!

And how wonderful the number of rescues featured.

Mine is one as well.

Meet Biscuit. She’s a rescue brought from Alabama to Minnesota who found her way into my home and heart! Her greatest delight among all activities, is combining back and forth along a sandy shoreline, eyes focused for any movement or flash of fin reflected in the sun-spilled water.

Yes, she fishes! Mind you, it’s a low success rate for ‘catches’, but a high success rate for entertaining people who watch her, and certainly for me.

Every summer she gets lucky a couple of times, especially early in the season when the water is cold, the fish are sluggish and they are found in the shallow waters. Biscuit is a sushi eating dog- consuming what she catches— or at least most of it, though for her- and anyone watching, the joy is in the chase.

Biscuit will spent hours combing back and forth along the shore, sometimes to the point of her paws needing my care as the rocks and sand rub and luffa her footpads red and sore.

We frequent a local park’s lake where they have a dog beach. I paddle board a little farther out and she combs the shallow waters of the shoreline of the dog beach. Other pet owners have to entertain their dogs, continually throwing sticks for their dogs to retrieve. Biscuit is self-entertaining- singularly focused- looking for fish. In fact she’s become well-known among park regulars, as her behavior is rather unique compared to the other dogs at the beach. I’ll hear people from the shore greeting her, and explaining what she’s up to.

Biscuit also kayaks and paddle boards with me… though honestly, I think it’s just to get a chance to swim and fish. she wears a dog life jacket which has a handle on the top so that I can help her to get back in the kayak or on the board because, no surprise here, if she sees fish from her perch in the bow, you can bet she’s going to launch into the water to chase it.

I’m glad that we live in a state with so many lakes available to us. And while we both have slowed down a little over these past 11 years, we are still out there capturing every moment of summer sunlight and making people smile and enjoying ourselves.

Thanks for letting me introduce you to my favorite animal companion.

Elizabeth

Biscuit- a dog that fishes, paddle boards and kayaks.