Back to the marriage advice you’ve been begging for….??

Now that we’re past the Bridal Registry, I’d like to discuss some of the more intimate parts of marriage. 

Background: During Buck and my lengthy three month engagement, I was lucky enough to have some older, wiser, more mature ranch wives step in and give me some advice. 

Wendy, the ranch wife of all ranch wives, gave me advice that has accurately exceeded any I have ever received.  Some of it cannot be shared on a public forum such as this, but today I’m going to pass on some of the “appropriate for all audiences” advice she gave me.  Wendy lives in a different “town” than us and she had never met Buck prior to this conversation.  Here’s how the conversation went (I’ll give a full and detailed explanation afterwards)…

Wendy “The next thing you need to know is that Buck has the best cowdogs around”.

Me (confused look on my face) “Wendy, Buck does have really nice dogs, but have you seen them work?”

Wendy “I don’t need to see them.  They are the best.  Everyone else’s stink.”

Me “Wendy? I didn’t think you’d seen any of the dogs…”

Wendy “I don’t need to see them. Buck’s are the best.  Everyone else’s stink.”

Me (eye brow tilted, head cocked sideways) “I don’t get it.”

Wendy “You will.”

You don’t get this kind of advice from just anyone.  Not everyone understands this kind of wisdom.  I believe it reaches far beyond cowboys, my friends.  Here’s what I’ve learned…

A cowboy likes his own dogs.  Charlie, Scooter, and Jimmy are as much a part of Buck as umm… his long underwear in the dead of winter (?)or maybe his silk scarf in the dead of winter (?).  I don’t know… let’s just say his dogs are a reflection of him. We won’t take that too far because Charlie is not only slightly cross-eyed…

Told ya!  but he’s also a little on the unsociable side. 

Scooter is determined but his short legs don’t allow him to travel too quickly.

Jimmy is a young and attractive athletic dog, but hyperactive…

and more often than not, annoyingly playful.  

Beyond their faults they reflect their owner.  In Buck’s case, his dogs are faithful, competent, fun and they absolutely love what they do.  They are a part of Buck simply because they make his job do-able.   Together Buck and his dogs make a great team, each depending on one another to do their work. 

Without dogs in the canyons, moving cows is nearly impossible.  Buck is attached to his dogs and to no one else’s.  No one else’s work for him, no one else’s reflect him, no one else’s are a part of him.  Not only is he unattached to other people’s dogs, but he doesn’t particularly like anyone else’s.  It’s a strange phenomenon, one that I can’t explain, but a very real and true one at that.

If your honey doesn’t have a cowdog, this theory still applies… there is something that is a part of his life that reflects him.  I don’t know what it is for your darling, (I would love to know!) but in the case of a cowboy, it is his right hand man, his cowDOG. 

–Chelsea