Hello from Mia and The Black Dog Ranch Bunch

Hi everyone it's me Mia, I'm standing on Ms. Charlene's leg and she is giving me good scratching in this picture. I love her soooo much. Well things have been pretty routine here at the ranch this week. Ms. Charlene puts these really big round bales of hay out for our horse brothers and sisters and Teddie, Betty, Mickey, Molly, Willa and myself have discovered recently that it is a really cool place to jump up on and then lay around in all that loose hay. The horses don't like us bothering their hay so they try to chase us off and then the real chase is on! Ms. Charlene had a talk with Teddie because he is our leader here at the ranch and she told him that it wasn't a good idea for all of us to be chasing the horses. She told Teddie that one of us could get kicked or stepped on and she didn't want any of us to get hurt. Ms. Charlene loves Teddie a lot so she didn't really yell at him, but he listened to everything she was saying!

I think Mickey still wanted to go out to the pasture and jump on that hay even after Teddie told us not to do it.......Mickey said it was kind of hard to resist being a true ranch dog and all, but he ended up staying right there on the porch. We have a new friend, JACK. Ms. Charlene said he lives in Iowa and he has my book, "Stories from Black Dog Ranch". Ms. Charlene said that Jack's Mother wrote her a letter and she told Ms. Charlene that Jack really likes us and wants to come down to the ranch this summer and meet all of us. We think that is soooo cool. We love kids and we can't wait to meet Jack and give him a ton of kisses! Talk more soon, Mia