Thursday, March 26, 2009

Spring is Here

I love our walks with the pugs in the evenings.  They are usually a great way to unwind from a hectic day.  The last few nights, however, I have felt like I am in the middle of the old school video game Paperboy.  There have been other dogs off leash, kids on bikes, bees and all kinds of other obstacles thrown our way.  If only I had a sack of newspapers with me so that I could throw one at them and get them to pause for a few seconds so that we can make our way down the street.

While I never encountered this type of hinderance in Paperboy, one of my biggest pet peeves when out walking the dogs is when someone walking another dog stops to talk to us and doesn’t know the leash dance.  When dogs meet, they sniff each other and they inevitably make their way to the other’s rear end to really get to know each other.  They circle and smell, circle and smell and during that process the leashes will inevitable get tangled.  When this happens, I try to keep up with the dogs and get the leashes untangled.  It is really great when the other person is of the same mindset and can help keep the leashes straight so that our dogs don’t become conjoined twins.  It really irks me when the other person just stands there while the five dogs get their leashes all in an knot (my four and their one).  Some are oblivious, but there is one person that I encounter fairly regularly that just laughs and says, “Oh, look they are getting all tangled up!”  What a very keen observation!

So while that person drones on and on I just keep untangling the leashes and thinking to myself that it is quite obvious that this person has never owned more than one dog at a time.

And for this very reason, I am glad that we move the clocks ahead a few weeks back.  When it was getting dark earlier, we would walk the dogs before dinner and now since we aren’t in a mad race with the sun, we can walk the dogs after dinner.  Trust me, you don’t want to have your dogs leash get all tangled with mine when I’m hungry.  I think everyone will agree that walks after dinner are much, much nicer.