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Blind Corners
March 27, 2008 |
Supermutt has been pretty well behaved on our runs lately. The snowbanks are starting to shrink, so his constant urge to get to a snowbank and do a leg lift is even starting to diminish. We have been seeing alot of dogs lately too, and even that has gone well. Supermutt has shown a passing interest in all the other dogs, but that’s about it. Even the fence running, barking dogs haven’t gotten much of a reaction out of Supermutt. Goodboy!! But then everything changed. It was bound to happen sooner or later, and really, I’m surprised it took this long. We were headed out on a midweek 5 mile run on a gorgeous 55 degree sunny day. I felt too tired for a 5 mile run but it was so nice out I had to go. We left the house and started up the street at a slow easy pace. About 5 minutes out, Supermutt started to pull more and more anxiously. He stuck his head way up high and started looking around. I thought at first that he was just excited, and wanted to go faster, faster! But then we rounded the corner. We came face to face with our neighborhood nemesis, in all his curly, black furred magnificence. It was Black Dog. See, Black Dog has been a problem for me and Supermutt for some time now. Black dog always starts pulling his own human, who can barely slow Black Dog down, and follows with an eruption of barking, the likes of which are hard to imagine if you haven’t witnessed it for yourself. Supermutt, being my super sidekick, takes Black Dog’s performance as a cue to come to my rescue and defend me against the black furry menace. Supermutt, in my defense, proceeds to put on an equally menacing and equally loud display of his own. It takes a superhuman effort to reign him in and snap him out of the “trance” that he’s gotten himself into but I manage to do it. I worried that the effort might have taken a mile or two out of me. Finally, we made it fully around the corner. We couldn’t see Black Dog anymore, so Supermutt was satisfied that all was safe in his neighborhood again, and we continued on to have a terrific run, all 5 miles. How boring things would be if we never encountered blind corners!
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