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KB'S PUPS, PART 10, #2--By Sam & Shawnie Burdette

© Judy A Tomlinson

Living in Oklahoma one learns to adapt to any weather situation that arises. Storms can come up so quickly and unexpectedly that it can be fairly unnerving! This is what happened on the Friday evening the Burdettes tell about in this installation of the puppies' lives. (The above was written by Judy--the remainder of this article is the Burdettes!)

On Friday morning at 5:00 AM an electrical storm passed over the farm. Wife got up, put on her work clothes, and went out to check on the dogs. Husband remained in bed, he has been known to sleep through tornadoes. In a few minutes wife called to husband that something was wrong with KB's pups, they were all screaming. This is about the only thing that would motivate husband to rise at 5:10 AM. Husband quickly staggered from bed and jerked on his pants and shirt. It was pitch black outside. Husband grabbed the hand-held spotlight. Just as we went out the door a crack of lightning hit about a half mile away. The impact of the lightning and thunder shook the ground. Husband and wife got in the pickup truck and started down to the longruns. More lightning and thunder erupted and it started pouring rain. We parked the pickup at an angle to the longrun with the headlights shining toward the cover inside the longrun.

Just as we were entering the run, another crack of lighteing hit on the far end of our 40 acres and lit up the whole sky. Husband was reaching for the gate just as the lightning hit. He jumped back about three feet. Wife and husband went on in the longrun and started shining the spotlight and looking for the pups. Talk about scared looking pups. The poor pups were shivering and shaking. Some were huddled together down in a hole. Some were leaning against the doghouses. Some were laying down with their heads buried in the grass. It was pouring rain. Husband and wife started searching and gathering up pups. Wife bent down under the cover and started cramming pups into one igloo doghouse. We started counting. We only counted six pups, two were missing. Husband took the spotlight and started searching. Wife stayed under the cover and sat down in front of the doghouse with the pups. Husband found a pup under one of the doghouses, but he could not find the other pup. We counted again. We could not get an accurate count on the black pups crammed into one doghouse in the darkness. We started transferring pups into another doghouse. Sure enough, one pup was missing. The lightning, thunder,

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