After I waved DH off at the door this morning (oh I'm liking this !), I leashed up the 3 dogs and out we went. I'm bound and determined to keep my calorie count stable and my exercise up this week. Now that I've had a couple of quiet, catch-up days, I don't want to be a couch potato all week.
Here they are - ready to go...Alex and Skippy are coupled on the purple leash - after the first walk or two of the season they walk really well like this. They get enough room to sniff a bit and no knotted leashes for me :-)
We live in a residential neighbourhood and I've got a couple 4km walks mapped out. One, in the newer (more sunny) area and the other in the older, more treed area. It was already pretty sunny and hot when we left, so we went with the shady walk.
Bah, we got the walk in, but ended up circling around some roads. Why ? because some people insist on opening their doors and letting their dogs run loose ! Their big dogs. Their big dogs who, upon seeing other dogs out walking adopt a not-so-friendly pose.
I have 2 little dogs, was walking 3 little dogs this morning and two of those little dogs have big dog complexes. When they look in the mirror they see Rottie's or something LOL
With my two, I can scoop 'em up and get out of Dodge,so to speak, if necessary - not so much with three of them.
Much better to backtrack and detour around instead. We have to do this all the time and it p***ses me off.
People, if you want your dogs out, take them for a walk - leashed !
If you want to open the door and let them out loose, fence your yard !
Tomorrow, I'll go the other route :-)
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We have the same mentality here. Some people will be out in their yards as we walk by and they still don't call their dogs back...not sure what that all means except they they just don't care!
ReplyDeleteWe have Thor fenced in. It keeps him in, and keeps other idiots and their dogs out. Skippy and Alex are just adorable!
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