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Stupid dog tricks
My housemate Zach's out of town this weekend and I've been "taking care" of his dogs, meaning I feed them and let them out into the bathroom backyard a few times a day. Except that of course, Sherlock is a good girl and always goes out, but Watson has been flat out refusing to go outside, and as far as I know he hadn't been outside since Thursday night (when I dragged him out forcibly by his collar), and I'd been closing the doors of any relevant rooms in the house so the damage can't go too far if his stubbornness causes any other problems.
For those unfamiliar with the dogs, Sherlock is a female 40-pound tan collie-something-mix and a sweetie, and Watson is a male 75-pound black lab-and-something-stinky-and-stupid mix and a big dumbbutt.
So I got home from Puzzle Safari (we placed 24th out of 75 -- sigh), and as usual I open the back door, Sherlock runs out and does her stuff, and Watson refuses to go outside. A bit later, I go out back WITH Sherlock and we run around on the patio playing silly dog fight games. I hear Watson come to the door (all the jingling and barking gets his attention), so I try to get him to come out and play... and he runs away yet again.
After a while I just say screw it and decide to go run an errand (we need some stuff around the house and I've been a slacker). I put my keys in my pocket, and go to the front door. Watson follows me. I say, "You think you're funny, don't you?" and open the door...
...and he runs out of the house.
Aaaaaaaaaaa. Sherlock's still being good and is just standing in the doorway like "huh?" but Watson is running down the street. So I go in and grab his leash, and THEN Sherlock goes nuts, because she's like "OMG LEASH! LEASH MEANS WALK! OMG WALK! WALK WALK WALK!!!1!!1woof!!11" and so of course I can't get her off my back until I put her leash on her, and we run outside together, and she drags me down the block.
We see Watson halfway down the NEXT block, terrorizing a little old lady and her chihuahua. So I'm like "WATSON! GET BACK HERE!" and he sees me and runs further away. Which of course makes Sherlock pull me more.
Fortunately, (or unfortunately since I didn't grab any plastic bags), Watson eventually finds what must be his favorite place in Ballard to take a dump, because he pretty much squats down on this one lawn and just stays there, even when Sherlock and I go running up to him. Ew. But I did catch up with him and quickly get a leash around his collar too.
The dogs are all like "YAY! WALK!" but I'm like "fuck you, let's go home", and drag them back to the house, figuring that's the best way to head off any other attempts of illegal pooping.
And that's how I ended up accidentally walking the dogs for two blocks this evening. And finally made a Sherlock LJ icon.
More about Puzzle Safari later...
For those unfamiliar with the dogs, Sherlock is a female 40-pound tan collie-something-mix and a sweetie, and Watson is a male 75-pound black lab-and-something-stinky-and-stupid mix and a big dumbbutt.
So I got home from Puzzle Safari (we placed 24th out of 75 -- sigh), and as usual I open the back door, Sherlock runs out and does her stuff, and Watson refuses to go outside. A bit later, I go out back WITH Sherlock and we run around on the patio playing silly dog fight games. I hear Watson come to the door (all the jingling and barking gets his attention), so I try to get him to come out and play... and he runs away yet again.
After a while I just say screw it and decide to go run an errand (we need some stuff around the house and I've been a slacker). I put my keys in my pocket, and go to the front door. Watson follows me. I say, "You think you're funny, don't you?" and open the door...
...and he runs out of the house.
Aaaaaaaaaaa. Sherlock's still being good and is just standing in the doorway like "huh?" but Watson is running down the street. So I go in and grab his leash, and THEN Sherlock goes nuts, because she's like "OMG LEASH! LEASH MEANS WALK! OMG WALK! WALK WALK WALK!!!1!!1woof!!11" and so of course I can't get her off my back until I put her leash on her, and we run outside together, and she drags me down the block.
We see Watson halfway down the NEXT block, terrorizing a little old lady and her chihuahua. So I'm like "WATSON! GET BACK HERE!" and he sees me and runs further away. Which of course makes Sherlock pull me more.
Fortunately, (or unfortunately since I didn't grab any plastic bags), Watson eventually finds what must be his favorite place in Ballard to take a dump, because he pretty much squats down on this one lawn and just stays there, even when Sherlock and I go running up to him. Ew. But I did catch up with him and quickly get a leash around his collar too.
The dogs are all like "YAY! WALK!" but I'm like "fuck you, let's go home", and drag them back to the house, figuring that's the best way to head off any other attempts of illegal pooping.
And that's how I ended up accidentally walking the dogs for two blocks this evening. And finally made a Sherlock LJ icon.
More about Puzzle Safari later...
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But then, it also seems preferable to me to take a five block walk than clean up shit in the house.