Wet Pets and Other Watery Tales
Camden-Rockport Animal Rescue League
The Book:
Behind the Cover Photo
Four years ago Rod Choate found Sadie, a "full-blooded Water Beagle pup," living on the edge of the Cobbossee Stream in West Gardiner, Maine, and adopted her.
She loves to ride in the car but often gets car sick, reports the South Gardiner man. "But the high seas don't bother her a bit. She has been out in four- or five-foot swells and loves every minute of it."
The Choates now take her everywhere they go in their boat -- to the lake, down the river, to the open ocean. She loves it all. Her spot is the bow of the boat. "Bow Wow Rider," she's always on the lookout for seagulls, seals, and cormorants. Nothing escapes her sharp eye.
In the cover photo, the Choate vessel is doing about 15 knots, approaching Fort Popham on the Kennebec River. Choate says this is the speed at which "the ears begin to develop lift and fly on their own."
Our thanks to Rod Choate and Sadie for the perfect photo to open this collection of "Wet Pet" tales.
The Editors