Sunday, August 16, 2015

Pet Supermarket Trip

Our closest pet store is Pet Supermarket (PS). This is a small chain here in Florida. I am not sure if they are anywhere else. Do you have them where you are? We did not know of any before moving to Florida. We like this pet store more than Petco or PetSmart. It is smaller but seems to have what we need most of the time. Henry does pretty well navigating in this store, too. Also, the staff are usually pretty friendly and they seem to have a stable core of staff that recognize us even though we don't shop there as much as we used to. (Cupid being on special food now and only having one dog means a lot less to shop for these days.)

Two little things of note at our last trip to PS. First, we ran into an old neighbor. We remembered him but he did not remember us (so we didn't say anything). He has not lived in our neighborhood for probably 6 years or so now. But the biggest reason I even remembered him was that he commented on how impressed he was with the pugs. At the time we had 4 dogs. All walking on long leashes. To many this would create a vision of chaos (dogs getting tangled in leashes, each dog going in a different direction, perhaps). I say that this is the vision that may be conjured up since it the vision that pops to my own mind. (This is mostly because I see this many days on my way to work. A lady with 4 dogs and she is trying diligently to manage them all on leash but she looks like a hot mess while trying to walk them and pick up poop and make sure the one doesn't run in the street.) I know that we have likely looked the same way. But on this day, the pugs were in order! They had on their listening ears and remembered some of their training. On this day, they all paused at the corner when I said "wait" and when it was clear to go and I said "free" they all marched in unison across the street. So, that is what surprised this gentleman. He shared his positive impression of them with us and we were beaming with pride after having heard such a nice compliment. He left quite a warm fuzzy feeling with us. And thus, we have not forgotten him even though he obviously did not remember us. (Plus, being owned by a mere one pug is not how he last remembered us!) But it was nice to see this fella at the PS.

The other thing that happened at the PS was that Henry, per usual, sniffed his way around the counter and found the treats that the cashiers give out to good pups. And not only did he milk the girl for a small handful, but he charmed her into giving him a doggie bag to go! That Henry! Now that Benny is no longer here to outshine him, he is using this opportunity to get some back pay for days when he was overshadowed.

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