Dogs Chasing Cars
Though they may have thought otherwise, it was a sad day for dogs when cars were invented. What big fast-moving things did they chase before then? Horses and their riders? I wonder how often they caused the horses to shy away, thereby throwing the riders and bringing about broken limbs, necks, etc?
I know an erstwhile dog-loving guy who nevertheless gets as uptight about them chasing cars as I do. He said that one time he cured a dog of that habit. I asked him how. He answered, "I ran over his head."
Yesterday I talked with a very pleasant young lady who told me about a recent incident that I had heard about but had the creature involved wrong. She is rooming at the home of some friends of my wife, and it wasn't a cat after all that her car hit and killed. (Not she but her car hit it. Making that distinction clear is all-important.) As she was returning home one afternoon while dogsitting for her hosts, those two Jack Russells did one of their favorite over-active dog things, which was chasing cars with great enthusiasm, and the wheels of her vehicle hit not one but both with the same strike, killing one and leaving the other with a permanent bad leg. She was highly distraught and called her landlord and -lady at once, but they understood perfectly and soon got a couple of replacements for the canines.
Still the young lady was further badly spooked when one of the new dogs promptly dug up the grave of his deceased predecessor.
The thing about dogs is that word of dangers never seems to get around to them. But if it did, it's doubtful how much heed they likewise would take of it.
I know an erstwhile dog-loving guy who nevertheless gets as uptight about them chasing cars as I do. He said that one time he cured a dog of that habit. I asked him how. He answered, "I ran over his head."
Yesterday I talked with a very pleasant young lady who told me about a recent incident that I had heard about but had the creature involved wrong. She is rooming at the home of some friends of my wife, and it wasn't a cat after all that her car hit and killed. (Not she but her car hit it. Making that distinction clear is all-important.) As she was returning home one afternoon while dogsitting for her hosts, those two Jack Russells did one of their favorite over-active dog things, which was chasing cars with great enthusiasm, and the wheels of her vehicle hit not one but both with the same strike, killing one and leaving the other with a permanent bad leg. She was highly distraught and called her landlord and -lady at once, but they understood perfectly and soon got a couple of replacements for the canines.
Still the young lady was further badly spooked when one of the new dogs promptly dug up the grave of his deceased predecessor.
The thing about dogs is that word of dangers never seems to get around to them. But if it did, it's doubtful how much heed they likewise would take of it.
posted by Carl (aka Sofarsogoo) | 4:52 AM
3 Comments:
Lola does not chase cars, but only because she is either in the house, in the fenced yard, or on a leash. We live on a quiet street, but some people are crazy. She does everything else that is bad for her, including eating everything that passes by her face. It is easy to give her pills,just put them in her hand, but BabyBoy was not happy when she tried to eat a toad on his watch!
just put them in YOUR hand, she is a dog, she has paws. :-)
I wish we could say the same thing about our aged cat. Giving him medicine by any method is a tough job. I wonder if your dog will be the same way when she is older and, in her mind, wiser?
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