Alpo
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So me and Worthless yeller dog
go out for a walk. Part of the plan was to go down THIS street, circle the park, then go back up THIS street. But when we're about a block away from the park, we pass this house and these two little dogs come charging out.
If it was just to bark and watch us, we'd have just kept walking. But they looked like they wanted to fight. They did not look like they were big enough to cause damage, but I don't like having unknown aggressive dogs following me, and here come the owner to catch 'em, so we stop.
One is a hound puppy, and it gets caught real easy. T'other'n is what looks kinda like a miniature white Scotch Terrier. And she can't catch it. It keeps circling and barking and snapping, and I'm trying to keep Worthless calm, and not have her kill that damn little feist. We're there about ten minutes, with Worthless getting more and more upset, and me trying to calm her, and the totally no-account owner chasing her damn dog around and around and not getting anything accomplished.
I finally told the woman that I was about ready to knock the hell out of her dog, and she says, "I'm trying to catch it, sir."
I said, "That's why they make fences and leashes", and she says, "The kids let it out". Maybe. But they let it out long before I got there, 'cause it was in the yard when we got to the house.
Finally, since she was having no luck, I poked at it with my cane and said "Get away", and it stopped and went back up in the yard. Then, holding Worthless on a tight leash (had it wrapped around my hand so there was only about six inches of leash, instead of letting her have the entire four feet to move around, like normal), I walked her to the park, sat on a park bench and told her what a good dog she was for about ten minutes.
This has put the kibosh on the original plan, as I did not want to walk past that house again. So we go a different route.
Later we come up on a couple pushing a tandem baby buggy. As they come closer, I said that if they did not mind, she would like to meet the kids, as she loved kids. The mama stopped and petted her and decided she was a friendly dog, so we could do it. There was a girl-kid looked about three, and a boy-kid about one. The girl was fine, but the boy had never had nothing to do with a dog. He was okay, until Worthless reached in and licked him on the face. I guess that big of dog, with that big of mouth, with that many teeth, that close to his face, scared him, and he started crying. His mama tried to calm him down, and she licked him again and the crying turned to screaming. So that didn't work too good neither.
Then, as we make the last turn for home, she decides she wants to go straight while I turn left, so me and she end up stepping in the same spot of road, and she got there first, so I tromped on her foot.
As I say, we've had better walks.
go out for a walk. Part of the plan was to go down THIS street, circle the park, then go back up THIS street. But when we're about a block away from the park, we pass this house and these two little dogs come charging out. If it was just to bark and watch us, we'd have just kept walking. But they looked like they wanted to fight. They did not look like they were big enough to cause damage, but I don't like having unknown aggressive dogs following me, and here come the owner to catch 'em, so we stop.
One is a hound puppy, and it gets caught real easy. T'other'n is what looks kinda like a miniature white Scotch Terrier. And she can't catch it. It keeps circling and barking and snapping, and I'm trying to keep Worthless calm, and not have her kill that damn little feist. We're there about ten minutes, with Worthless getting more and more upset, and me trying to calm her, and the totally no-account owner chasing her damn dog around and around and not getting anything accomplished.
I finally told the woman that I was about ready to knock the hell out of her dog, and she says, "I'm trying to catch it, sir."
I said, "That's why they make fences and leashes", and she says, "The kids let it out". Maybe. But they let it out long before I got there, 'cause it was in the yard when we got to the house.
Finally, since she was having no luck, I poked at it with my cane and said "Get away", and it stopped and went back up in the yard. Then, holding Worthless on a tight leash (had it wrapped around my hand so there was only about six inches of leash, instead of letting her have the entire four feet to move around, like normal), I walked her to the park, sat on a park bench and told her what a good dog she was for about ten minutes.
This has put the kibosh on the original plan, as I did not want to walk past that house again. So we go a different route.
Later we come up on a couple pushing a tandem baby buggy. As they come closer, I said that if they did not mind, she would like to meet the kids, as she loved kids. The mama stopped and petted her and decided she was a friendly dog, so we could do it. There was a girl-kid looked about three, and a boy-kid about one. The girl was fine, but the boy had never had nothing to do with a dog. He was okay, until Worthless reached in and licked him on the face. I guess that big of dog, with that big of mouth, with that many teeth, that close to his face, scared him, and he started crying. His mama tried to calm him down, and she licked him again and the crying turned to screaming. So that didn't work too good neither.
Then, as we make the last turn for home, she decides she wants to go straight while I turn left, so me and she end up stepping in the same spot of road, and she got there first, so I tromped on her foot.
As I say, we've had better walks.
