Let’s face it, I spend a lot of time walking dogs. Between our early morning walk and two walks in the afternoon, it’s probably close to an hour and a half each day. I do a lot of thinking on my walks, which is where many of my blog posts come from.
Lately I’ve been thinking about all the things I’ve learned/observed walking dogs. Things like:
- Your dog will pass by five houses where no-one is home or outside, but when it comes time for them to take their dump, they’re going in the yard of someone who’s outside watering their plants or someone who is just coming home.
- Your dog decides the road is good place to crap, just as a car comes along
This seems like as good a place as any.
- If the yard is sparse, the dog will kick dried grass and dirt to cover their business, BUT if the lawn is nice and lush, large chunks of grass will go flying past your face as you bend down to pick it up.
- Your dog will take the biggest dump on the day you grabbed the poop bag with the hole in it.
- No matter how diligently you watch for other animals, at some point a dog will surprise you by coming from seemingly no-where and charging at you from their e-fenced yard, causing you to crap your pants.
- There will be cats who totally do not care that you have two large dogs.
I’ve heard they taste like chicken.
- Every day you will pass by newspaper boxes full of newspapers nestled in plastic bags. Until the day you forget your poop bag at home. That day, you will hustle your dog along home, praying you can get there before they poop.
- The day you forget your camera, you will cross the path of fox, deer, rabbits and all kinds of wildlife.
Have I forgotten anything? What kind of things have you observed on your walks?
We enjoyed reading your observations! We have experienced the first two bullets so often that those incidents have become part of the walking adventure with our three dogs. LOL.
Sounds about right. I’d add..
It’ll always be on a lovely day, when your planning a long walk with a none dog owner friend that you mess up the poo-bag and end up covered in the stuff. Well either a walk with a none dog owning friend or a first date (true story!!)
You have covered it all. I can only HOPE that the clods of grass fly past my face. Mostly they land on my head! Ugh!
LOL sounds about right to us. Laughing at the bit about always picking the house when someone is outside. Have a marvellous Monday.
Best wishes Molly
I think you pretty much covered it all. So very true! We dogs love to humiliate humans when we can!
At least YOU clean up after Sampson & Delilah. Back on Long Island, I had a neighbor who used to let her dog out their front door and tell him to “go shit across the street”. That is, until one day when my Mom caught them (and the dog) in the act. What happened later that day put an end to their dog crapping on our property at least. In fact, we rarely saw the dog again after that.
We’ve definitely experienced all of the above! I have had dogs hike their legs and pee in some not so great places…
It’s the Murphy’s Law of Dog Walking. Well played, Jodi.
Great post. Love love love pooping in the road. Glory pooped in the pond yesterday
This is something I will never forget – when Diva Shasta was younger and we were walking down a street in our neighborhood, there was a LARGE orange cat that was walking toward us. Now if it had been Shiloh, he would have already sounded the alert and been pulling me faster and faster so he could go after that cat. I kind of expected this same behavior from Diva Shasta since they both are Beagles and they are uncle and niece however such was not the case and what followed made me wish I’d had a video camera. We all kept walking towards one another – this was Diva Shasta’s first encounter with a neighborhood cat. Finally the two were close enough to touch nose’s – which the cat promptly did – I think it took Diva Shasta by surprise and what happened next definitely took me by surprise. Neither one backed away from each other – rather Diva Shasta got real quiet and you could see her kind of get as small as she could while still standing, dropped tail as the cat rubbed up against her. All of a sudden, Diva Shasta did the whole submissive roll thing while the cat just rubbed it’s face all around Diva Shasta’s face as she just layed there. If she could say anything about it she would definitely say – “Gee- I’m glad mom didn’t have a camera because she would be showing that picture all over the Internet and my big bro, Shiloh would just laugh and laugh” I know I did 🙂
Mom Kim
Hahaha! All too true! Let’s see… the other one I’ve found to be true is – your dog will always poop once but still you’ll carry extra bags you never need. The ONE day you leave the house w/ one small bag – your dog will poop twice. (luckily I usually have a small bag of treats in my pocket. I’ve been known to dump the treats into my pocket and pick up the 2nd poo w/ the treat bag.)
I pretend I’m gonna go poop than don’t, BOL
Lily & Edward
Oh…..my…..dog……
You just described my whole life, right down to the very last holey poop bag!
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LOL, spot on!! It’s nice to know I’m not alone on all those points!
All so true!! We haven’t been walking as much lately (we’ve been playing in our tick free yard!), that must be why I’m running out of blog ideas…LOL.
If halfway along our walk I notice that I don’t have as many poo bags as I thought, Rodrigo will take a 3rd poop and it’ll be just as big as the first 2 and a jogger will be coming down the road at the same time.
Because of this, I carry way too many poop bags and if I don’t separate 5 before we start the walk, then while I’m trying to unroll and rip off a poo bag, 3 out of 4 dogs will take simultaneous poops and then the rabbit appears.
*sigh*
Those are great observations.
I make Freighter do his business pre walk. While we are walking there is no time to stop for unfinished business. I bring poo bags but hope to never use them. 🙂
Hahaha! those are incredibly astute observations!