For some reason, despite spending the earliest years of my life with a Great Dane, I am scared of dogs. All dogs. In fact, screw dogs. When they bark, a terror tremor goes through my chest and puts tears in my eyes. Once, a group of friends and I were walking home from school when a black dog, small-medium sized, ran up to us. I actually jumped onto my friend’s shoulders. Jumped. Climbed right up her like a tree, clung there and cried while she ran me away from said evil dog. It probably all started that day I went to my Grandma’s party and the adults all got drunk, and stood on the second storey balcony, below my cousin and I were trapped against a wall by a hideous Jack Russel. We screamed and cried but the adults just laughed drunkenly and jeered the dog.
Dicks.
But today, a little someone came bounding into our yard, and stayed there all day keeping us happy. I didn’t feel scared of him once, and actually wish he would come back.
A friendly lick to the leg.
Look at that tail.
His eyes were white, and so sweet.
And drinking some water from the hose was more fun than drinking it from the water bucket.
So there you have it, the first dog I have ever enjoyed the company of since the Great Dane passed away. He was sweet, calm, playful, and even knew commands. When the dog catcher guy came to get him, a small tear may have threatened to fall. Bye buddy, I don’t know your name but I do know that you were an awesome guy, and you’ve made me realise not all dogs are bad.
Those are some beautiful pictures of a gorgeous dog. Some of our neighbors have a cream colored malamute. Don’t remember her name, but such a sweet critter.
Aww, I haven’t seen a cream one so it sounds doubly awesome. Our old neighbours used to have a grey one but it wasn’t sweet, it howled alllll day long!
So cute. I love dogs.
Maybe he’s an angel and was sent down from dog heaven to help you.
Well he was exceptionally cute…
No better remedy than a lovely dog to overcome a trauma! Well done, both of you.
Thank you
And they are great healers when they’re sweet dogs!
I’m very glad you had a redeeming experience with a dog.
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Oh, I’m also not fond of attacking, barking or growling dogs. My wife and I used to walk for exercise around the neighbourhood, but one day a pit bull came barrelling towards us and started jumping and snapping mid-air around us. Shook us up enough to stop us going for walks in the streets. Stupid owner came out of his house and stood on his driveway and said ‘come here’ in a gruff voice to the dog a number of times, but made no effort to come and get the nutty dog. I’m sure some dogs are nice and well trained. I think it’s the stupid owners that cause people to fear dogs.
The dog in your photos looks like a Siberian Husky. They love to run and if they escape a fenced yard or a leash, no amount of calling and whistling will make them return (although I suspect some do). They also like to chew and dig leaving a path of destruction. It seems they become bored quite easily. Maybe he just wanted a bit of entertainment and attention.
Ohh that sounds awful! I can’t believe the owner didn’t take charge! I will never understand people who get dogs but don’t bother to 1. train them properly, and 2. have a secure yard they can’t get out of.
He was indeed a husky! He didn’t have one nap the whole time he was there he was running around / playing / jumping / eating. He had a great time. They certainly need stimulation, we reckon he ran off while his owners were at work (because he wasn’t reported missing either) because he was bored and lonely.
Maybe you liked him coz he wasn’t actually a dog, but a wolf?
I did wake up my boyfriend by yelling ‘There’s a wolf in the yard!’
There is a saying: no one greets you like a dog.
Returning home is always a treat because so much love is on offer. Our Border Collie (Blue Merle) is the best friend we will ever have. No moods, no tantrums – just love.
We had a husky once, we loved him so much but one day he run away… We found him at the local market after a while then he looked at us and run away again.
You had me laughing my ass off with your dry remarks…screw dogs and dicks! Luckily, I didn’t spew my coffee directly on my computer.
I’m glad you found a furry friend that was cool, and I hope he made it home okay.
Dog catcher? He looks like he has a tag on his collar. No contact information?
Not so much ‘dog catcher’ as ‘part of the council in charge of registering dogs’ haha but I didn’t know what to call them, they were the people who have all the registered pet information anyway so they were going to call the owners
Oh ok, glad he didn’t get put to sleep.
Nooo definitely not!
And since I can tell you’re an animal lover I just want to assure you that we’re going to call them up tomorrow to chase up whether or not they got in contact with his owners.
Oh okay, good. Who’s we?