You'd better believe it

[lizblackdog]

Picture this: we are in the little wooded patch behind the houses. Spike loose, Squish on his longleash. Squish is puttering about eating grass and Spike and I are sitting on the grass having a breather.

There's a bunch of kiddies in the playground. This is not a problem. Then one of them takes it into her head to come and play with Spike. This is normally not a problem either. Except she takes it into her head to come up to us holding a football above her head in one hand and a hysterically aggressive Cairn terrier's leash in the other.

Um, hello? On what planet is it a good idea to go running up to ANY loose dog that way?

My dog's a fucking hero. He did not lose it. He did help himself to the football, lifting it neatly and gently out of the girl's upstretched hand as he leapt over the exploding Cairn with three foot to spare. He very nearly leapt over the girl as well. But he put the ball down when I asked and he didn't so much as look at the bloody Cairn funny. We would have got away with no drama whatever if Squish hadn't felt it necessary to match the Cairn yelp for yelp at twice its volume.

I love my dogs.

Comments

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

clearly ball trumps horrible little barking dog! GO SPIKE!

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

Ball trumps EVERYTHING in Spikeworld XD

[yesididit.livejournal.com]

sounds like newspaper headlines, "ball trumps noisy dog" and "squish enters singing contest"

[santaman.livejournal.com]

Very good behaviour of both dogs, I mean Squish might have figured out he was in a singing contest or so.. ;)

[lemmingpie.livejournal.com]

Your dogs...they are too much! I love that Spike snatched the ball up, that is hilarious!