Who We Are
About the Wild Western Wanderers
Hi, we’re the Wild Western Wanderers – Mala and Tessie, two rescued cattle dogs who found our forever home in the mountains of Colorado with our parents, Carrie and John, and two cats, Kali and Mateo.
The Wild Western Wanderers owe our existence to a shelter dog named Ella. While they didn’t have a name for it at the time, Ella and our human mom, Carrie, started wandering together way back in 2006 when Carrie adopted Ella from the Denver Dumb Friends League. Ella and Carrie had many adventures together. Some of which we’ll talk about in our posts.
Fast forward eight years to when our human dad, John, came into the picture. He was the first boyfriend that Ella approved of enough for Carrie to keep him around. Less than a year later, mom and dad met me (Mala) at a charity event. Mom couldn’t resist my charm (how could she – I was pretty darn cute), so even though Ella didn’t really want to be a big sister, she became one anyway. Ella took me under her paw, because she didn’t trust mom and dad to raise me themselves – she considered them fairly irresponsible.
Not long after I was adopted into the family, we took a family vacation to California in 2016. On that trip, mom referred to us the SEAkers, because we drove all the way from Colorado to Santa Cruz, California so that Ella and I could see the ocean. Mom really LOVES the ocean and wanted us to experience it while Ella could still run and play on the beach, of which we did a lot! Dad, who wasn’t the biggest fan of road trips at the time, flew out to meet us there.
It wasn’t until our next road trip together through Wyoming, Montana and Idaho that we decided to call ourselves the Wild Western Wanderers. The four of us went a lot of places on that trip, but the highlight was Going to the Sun road in Glacier Park, Montana. Ella loved those vistas more than anything, and tolerated a couple of nights sleeping in a tent to experience the grand views. Ella always preferred staying in hotels on our adventures.
We’ve taken many trips since then, and some things have changed. Ella left the Earthly realm in August of 2021. Mom was heart broken because Ella had been her sidekick through so much. It took almost a year before our parents could bring themselves to adopt another family member. That’s where I come in – I’m Tessie – a spunky Australian Cattle Dog (red heeler) from Texas. We have two cats too, who will come up in some of our stories. They don’t like to travel, so they’re role when we go off adventuring is to hold down the fort at home.
You can read more about each one of us on the About page.
On this site, we’ll be posting about our adventures, and our perspective on life. Mom is the one who will be typing for us, no doubt with Mateo sitting nearby (he loves computer work). She owns her own health and wellness business, so is pretty busy, but she’ll try to post at least once a week. You can also follow us on Instagram.
We hope that you enjoy hearing from us!