Beta the Wonder Dog

Beta is my 2.5 year old black Labrador (I rescued her from the Richardson Animal Shelter in April 2002, about 6 months after Tori - a black Labrador/Coonhound mix (!) - died).

Some people have suggested that Beta is a mix with a Dalmation, because she has a striped tongue; that would explain her lack of intellect (she tries hard, but just doesn't have the brain cells needed to be a scholar).

On Friday morning, I let her into the backyard, and she spotted a squirrel climbing the bird feeder (equipped with a squirrel baffle, which works really well). This may have been her best chance to catch a squirrel, since it had to:
a) go down the pole
b) cross the yard
c) climb the tree
Naturally, the squirrel won, "clucking" at Beta from a safe spot up the tree.