As I told you last week, my friend Betty said to me "Oh Patty, I've got to tell you what a ruckus you and your terriers caused!" Her son had told her what had happen as soon as she and her husband got back from a months long vacation in Florida.  She said an article had been in the paper and she was going to look for it through the stack of papers awaiting them on their return from vacation.

Originally back a few months before the article, Char, Lisa and Steve and Char's friend drove here on a Sunday for a day out with Carl and myself. Char's friend had a terrier about 18 months old that had never been in the field and that little terrier was the first one in the ground. The terrier did bay and we started digging, and kept digging.

The terrier is a greenhorn so we didn't know what to expect but we had to dig. After a couple of hours or so and two HUGE holes the terrier came out. We threw a seasoned terrier in so we could at least try and identify quarry but when that terrier came out we finally gave up, filled in the holes and left. And now for your reading enjoyment.....

LAPORTE (3-5-2004)
Police investigate reported graves
Detectives spent nearly five hours digging in the fields and woods on CR-400S, west of Ind. 39, Thursday afternoon after a concerned citizen found what he thought were shallow graves.

"We got a report of disturbed earth and we followed up on that concern." said LaPorte County Sheriff Jim Arnold. The LaPorte County Prosecutor's Office was also called out in case of a recovery. Excavating equipment was used to dig up the area.

"We found nothing." Arnold said.

According to Arnold, Capt. Scott Bell was on patrol when he received a report from a motorist about finding several freshly dug holes in the area of CR-400S and Ind. 39 around 7 a.m.

"The holes were rectangular shape and looked like they could be graves." Arnold said.

As a precaution, police checked it out. After several hours, the digging stopped around 12:30 p.m.

"We wanted to cover all our bases." Arnold said. "It's a lengthy process."

Arnold said they were not expecting to find anything.

"There are no open cases or missing persons at this time." he said.

My commentary is, I've got news for these people-how would they like to dig those big holes with four shovels and a bar in freezing cold??? HA! That is how the holes were first dug up!

We didn't find anything either, I was hoping maybe they discovered quarry because we sure didn't find it! My friend Betty who owns the land said she would be happy to let me see the Search Warrant the police got-its four pages long. I guess they sent it to her in the mail! Betty said her son told them (police) that his dad and mom had given permission for people to dig a few months before but the police would not believe him and since Betty and Russ were driving around Florida on vacation they couldn't get in touch with them so the police got the search warrant, excavating equipment and started bringing up the earth.

Lucky for us, the land owners Russ and Betty have an excellent sense of humor and we are still allowed to work terriers on their property. They thought this whole thing was a hoot! Russ gets a big kick out of the dogs and what they can do and even stopped by the day we were on his land to say hello and take a look see. He of course had enough sense to get back in his truck and into a warm house. Can't say the same for the rest of us.

Patty