Hello I know most of you guys/gals chase your pets out of the train room. But some of us don’t. My little friend has been hanging out with me the last few weeks. He has been good just watching me work if I make to much noise he will leave but he comes back when it stops. It nice to have him hanging out most of the time I am alone. So who’s your buddy?
Have a nice day Frank
Your photo brought back fond memories of our late bassett hound, Maggie Mae, who would follow me to the garage layout and listen when the whistle blew and the engines chuf. In time she would become bored and lay on the rug near the kitchen door and wait for me to let her in. She had had enough choo-choo for the day.
Gale
A kindergarten poem that Ive made my motto:
Ill cuddle and purr, Ill groom my soft fur, all for my Favorite Guy.
But I cant help but boast, of the one I love most, Me, Myself, and I.
Though my grandmother’s kitten does sometimes require a moment of stomping and crushing on the layout to boost her ego. [:D]
Here’s two of mine. I also have a little girl and we have another five Golden Retrievers kickin around here somewhere. The dogs have actually found itty bitty bits I have dropped into the carpet on more than one occasion. So they do earn their keep sometimes.[&]
Brent[C):-)]
Legs, a big ugly wolf spider that lives in one of the mobile homes on my layout. It pays rent by snaring any bugs it comes across.
Meet Jackson…he follows me everywhere but with his short legs he can’t get down to the model railroad room in the basement. But he whines and cries when I’m down there just so I know where he is.[:-^]
BTW: Another forum member’s wife did the art work on the photo.
That Jackson is one fine looking dog! Red Lodge is a great little town, was there in 2006 with two Harley buds having come over Bear Tooth on our way to a rally in Billings. Great food in beautiful country.
Gale
That would be our English bulldog Hannah. I really have to get her some more track.
Jarrell
Thanks for the kind words Gale…both for Jackson and our little town. Our annual bike rally is very popular and draws a lot of people who love riding through this beautiful country. The Beartooth Highway is a spectacular drive, closed during the winter but will re-open on Memorial Day.
Jackson is a rescue dog, we’ve had him for about 10 months and he is a real handful and a lot of fun.
Wayne
Here’s the start of my new layout a few weeks ago…
…and here’s what my buddy thinks of it a few feet away as I work along…
It seems to me that there is nothing that makes a dog more relaxed than being in the company of a hard working human.
Dusty.
Gracie, my gray cat, is my buddy and she is sleeping on my lap as I type this message on my laptop which is balanced on the arm of a sofa chair.
However, Gracie is no longer allowed in my train room since I found her laying on my plowed farm field. I had to completely re-do the field since she destroyed it by laying on it.
I also discovered that she had taken a liking to biting off pieces of telephone poles that passed through a village on my layout.
But the worst offense was a missing person, a fisherman, who was standing on the banks of a river on my layout. I found his fishing pole, but I never did find the missing person. Gracie is now a feline of interest in this missing person case, but I do not have enough evidence to arrest her and bring this case to justice.
Rich
When my tuxedo cat, Buster, was young, he used to sit and watch intently on whatever project I was working on. When he got older, he was like most kids, he just lost interest. My older tabby, Precious, decided not to get along with the other two, she took up residence in the basement, er, train room. When I’m down there, she follows me around the room.
Buster
Precious
I changed my avatar to show my buddy - hope it worked. This is Abby - a 4 year old miniature Schnauzer. Her favorite spot is upstairs in front of the fire, but when she thinks I have been in the basement long enough, she comes down to get me. And if I don’t come up right away, she will start bringing stuff upstairs and leaving it at the top of the stairway.
I have 3 indoor cats who all injoy the train room.One will jump up on the track if I do not watch him.He likes to look out the basement window above my shelf layout’ He is quite carefull and never hurts anything except for a telephone pole or 2.I allways chase him off.But they do like to watch the trains move around.Bob
These are two of my buddies. Buddy, a JRT, and youngest grandson, Jack. DJ.
A ten year old yellow lab named Shelbye. In addition to being my buddy she is a certified surveyor. She can determine the only available route between me and where I am going and manage to plop down right there.
Yeah…I need to teach the darn dog to run a variable speed drill and how to re-rail rolling stock.
Great thread!!!
My buddy is my 7 year old Golden Retriever, her name is Keena.
She’s also my golf caddie…
But, can she read breaks on the greens like my cat Gracie can?