Walker Payne

The movie has finally arrived. We watched the movie Walker Payne that our dog, Red (rest in peace) starred in. Look back to see pics of Red. This pic on the top is the day after we brought her home. The pic on the bottom is from the website of the movie showing the fake blood applied. She was in the final fight scene of the movie, it was good and sad to see her alive and in action again. We knew the fight scenes where just staged play scenes and she did a great job.
Another neat thing about the movie is, it was filmed in the town our land is in. The town was made to look like an older town, it was neat seeing what the town might have looked like 'back in the day' some of the vehicles we recognized as belonging to friends.

http://www.walkerpayne.com/

We went to mom and dad's house to make steaks for dinner. We had lots of steak from the grass fed beef we bought at the beginning of summer. We brought the movie so we could all watch it together.

Red 03/2003-07/2007

Our beloved dog, Red passed away at 8am this morning. We are not sure of the cause of death. We will miss her and not forget about her. We buried her out on our land, in a place we will now call Red Valley.

Pawley's Island

We went to Georgetown to visit with Richard's parents this week. We took the boys to Pawley's Island to go surfing.

Kyle was using his skimmer board, Red wanted to just run along the beach and Richard had to really hold her back.

The boys never got up on there boards before it started raining. They went back out after it started raning but I didn't take the camera out so it wouldn't get ruined.

Christmas 2005

Christmas at mom and dad's

Richard got a new grill, our old one was literally falling apart.

Red with a Santa hat, Santa doggie

Christmas at Carrie and Dave's house. We always give handmade gifts, except for the kids.

We didn't have room for a tree this year, so this little plant is our tree.

Chad got tools

Chad can be goofy, he just doesn't want anyone else to know.

They all got Remote Control cars.






Trying out there RC cars.

Christmas in Georgetown.

Red joins the family

Well, we got a phone call from a friend asking if we'd like a dog. Well, Kyle of course would love one, but I wasn't so sure I wanted the hassle. We decided to go look at the dog anyway. I found out it's an American Bulldog. First thing I think is it will attack one of the kids.

When we went to see her for the first time, she jumped on her trainer, which didn't help me any.

She had been used in a movie called "Walker Payne" it was a movie that had fighting dogs in it. http://www.ahafilm.info/movies/mr.phtml?fid=7732

So I was at this point convinced that she has been trained to fight. We were told that she was not aggressive enough. When there were any loud sounds on the set she would get scared and hide. So instead of paying for her to go back to California they wanted to find her a home here.

She was so good around the boys and really listened well to her trainer that we decided we would try and keep her. She had been trained to jump up for the movie. They also would steal her food to make her act more aggressive. Some things we would have to work on.

We had a hard time getting her into the truck. Her trainer all but picked her up and put her in the truck and told her to stay. When we got home, we could hardly get her out of the truck because she was staying and none of us had told her to. She was still waiting for her trainer to tell her it was okay to move.

A couple days after we got her, I walked into the kitchen and she was just standing there. So I had to call everyone in the house and say "okay, who told her to stay? please tell her she can move know or she will sit her all night"

She had some marks on here that from the movie(where they had shaved her and added color) that made her look like she had been in a dogfight. You can see the line down her back, It was colored red to look like blood for the movie.

She also had another spot on her shoulder that looked like she had been clawed.