• Dogs

    From Joy Beeson@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 9 22:55:49 2020
    One of the comments on today's Dogs of C Kennel https://www.gocomics.com/dogsofckennel/2020/02/09
    reminded me of the time I was riding on a back road in Upstate New
    York, and a dog came out of a yard, but instead of attacking, fell in
    behind me and followed along as if he were my dog. It was
    embarrassing at first, because he had no manners and I had no way to
    tell passing drivers that I wasn't responsible for his behavior.

    Then I came to the next house with a neglected dog, and instead of
    attacking me, the critter enjoyed a dog fight with my unwanted
    companion until I got too far away and companion broke off to catch up
    with me. I forget how many dogs he distracted.

    For a while, I worried about tolling him too far from his home, then I
    started wondering what I would do with him when I got home.

    By great good fortune, before I got to a main road where his lack of
    manners could have gotten him killed, I passed a lawn where several
    children were playing. An old lady on a bike couldn't compete with
    that, and I left him behind.

    I hope he found his way home after the children were called in for
    supper.

    --
    Joy Beeson
    joy beeson at comcast dot net
    http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/

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  • From John B.@21:1/5 to jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid on Mon Feb 10 12:33:58 2020
    On Sun, 09 Feb 2020 22:55:49 -0500, Joy Beeson
    <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:


    One of the comments on today's Dogs of C Kennel >https://www.gocomics.com/dogsofckennel/2020/02/09
    reminded me of the time I was riding on a back road in Upstate New
    York, and a dog came out of a yard, but instead of attacking, fell in
    behind me and followed along as if he were my dog. It was
    embarrassing at first, because he had no manners and I had no way to
    tell passing drivers that I wasn't responsible for his behavior.

    Then I came to the next house with a neglected dog, and instead of
    attacking me, the critter enjoyed a dog fight with my unwanted
    companion until I got too far away and companion broke off to catch up
    with me. I forget how many dogs he distracted.

    For a while, I worried about tolling him too far from his home, then I >started wondering what I would do with him when I got home.

    By great good fortune, before I got to a main road where his lack of
    manners could have gotten him killed, I passed a lawn where several
    children were playing. An old lady on a bike couldn't compete with
    that, and I left him behind.

    I hope he found his way home after the children were called in for
    supper.

    Or maybe he was adopted at the children's house :-)
    --
    cheers,

    John B.

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  • From Frank Krygowski@21:1/5 to Joy Beeson on Mon Feb 10 15:36:06 2020
    On 2/9/2020 10:55 PM, Joy Beeson wrote:

    One of the comments on today's Dogs of C Kennel https://www.gocomics.com/dogsofckennel/2020/02/09
    reminded me of the time I was riding on a back road in Upstate New
    York, and a dog came out of a yard, but instead of attacking, fell in
    behind me and followed along as if he were my dog. It was
    embarrassing at first, because he had no manners and I had no way to
    tell passing drivers that I wasn't responsible for his behavior.

    Then I came to the next house with a neglected dog, and instead of
    attacking me, the critter enjoyed a dog fight with my unwanted
    companion until I got too far away and companion broke off to catch up
    with me. I forget how many dogs he distracted.

    For a while, I worried about tolling him too far from his home, then I started wondering what I would do with him when I got home.

    By great good fortune, before I got to a main road where his lack of
    manners could have gotten him killed, I passed a lawn where several
    children were playing. An old lady on a bike couldn't compete with
    that, and I left him behind.

    I hope he found his way home after the children were called in for
    supper.

    Once, touring across South Dakota, we had a friendly farm dog run along
    with us on the side of the road for a couple miles. That was despite
    tailwinds that had us flying along over 20 mph.

    At one point, the road we were on crossed a bridge over a creek. He ran
    down to the creek and we thought we'd seen the last of him, but he came charging wetly up the other side and resumed running along with us.

    It was only when our speed increased to near 30 mph that he fell behind
    and gave up. We called him Wonderdog. Fun times!


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    - Frank Krygowski

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