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Jesse had a Vet appointment yesterday. I hadn\u2019t really thought about the fact that it had been a while since I last drove the station wagon and we\u2019d had a cold snap.<\/p>\nI get to spend some time cleaning the nice car today.<\/p>\n
Jesse had a Vet appointment yesterday. I hadn\u2019t really thought about the fact that it had been a while since I last drove the station wagon and we\u2019d had a cold snap.<\/p>\n
OOOppps. The combination, and I suspect the age of the battery in that vehicle combined to \u201cSurprise!\u201d Make the car not start.<\/p>\n
Goody!<\/p>\n
I thought about using the nice car to jumpstart the wagon but If I\u2019m going to have to pull the nice car out of the garage grab jumper cables start the wagon, then put the nice car back in the garage, get the dog loaded in the wagon, and do all that in less than 5 minutes so I can make the appointment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Too much stress!!!!<\/p>\n
Ah well, Jesse was going to be riding in the nice car sooner or later. I flip down the rear seats, toss a blanket on top of the \u00a0platform and load him up.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He was mostly good. As usual, he wouldn\u2019t settle down and kept pacing like he couldn\u2019t get comfortable. Coming back from the Vet, I tried having the rear seats in their normal position. In a way that might have been better because Jesse tried to curl up and lay down. Something kept him from staying curled up or getting comfortable for more than a minute or two.<\/p>\n
It might have been the stop & go traffic or just that he was too spun up from the excitement of going somewhere.<\/p>\n
I suspect, that if we were on a long freeway trip he\u2019d find a way to curl up. Lately as long as he can see me he seems to be content.<\/p>\n
We had an incident last Friday with another dog that was totally out of control whose owner had zero control over. As is always typical in these situations, the idiot owner was letting their dog run free off leash. Great!!!!\u00a0<\/p>\n
Their dog really came after Jesse and I both. To his credit, Jesse kept himself between the aggressive dog and me. Jesse\u2019s attitude toward me changed on Friday. I\u2019d had enough of this aggressive dog biting and snapping at both Jesse and I and got aggressive back. I made a sound Jesse has only heard once or twice, on those occasions it was directed at him because he was out of control. This time he looked up at me and realized I wasn\u2019t angry with him, I was fixated on the other dog and when I moved toward the other dog Jesse moved with me.<\/p>\n
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It only took him a moment to connect the dots he and I were going to fight this dog together. The dog\u2019s owner finally got their fat ass to where Jesse & I were making a stand and her dog ran off up the street, the minute she reached for its collar.<\/p>\n
She offered a lame weak \u201csorry\u201d to which I bellowed \u201cSorry my ass! Your dog attacked us, it went out of its way to follow us and was waiting for any opportunity to bite one of both of us.\u201d I was very mad about it. We were less than 300 yards from our house. Jesse picked up on my being pissed off. He checked to see if I was angry with him and when he figured out I was yelling at the lady, (another human,) it seemed to give him pause.<\/p>\n
At this point her dog ran in front of a delivery truck narrowly missing being hit and causing the delivery truck to lock up the brakes on a downhill run.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jesse & I continued our walk. I needed to clear my head, and perhaps so did Jesse. On the walk, I noticed Jesse was sticking much closer to me than usual. Every subsequent walk since, Jesse hasn\u2019t been pulling on the leash or trying to drag me up or down the mountain. He\u2019s been paying more attention to where I am versus where he is and we\u2019ve been waiting on each other. He\u2019ll wait for me to navigate rough terrain and he\u2019s not dragging me into the underbrush but I\u2019ll wait on the trail for him to investigate intriguing smells in the underbrush.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Somehow the whole incident on Friday changed the dynamic between us.<\/p>\n
That change in dynamic also carried over to the Vet visit.<\/p>\n
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He was more obedient and relaxed. Oh he didn\u2019t like being there and really hates waiting for anything but he was more mellow. He got on the scale with no production then sat when I asked him to, 69 pounds! He laid down next to me in the waiting room and was mostly obedient even when he heard the kitten in a cat carrier and really wanted to know what that thing was. He was good with the Vet, & the Assistants. I was super impressed. The only thing that was annoying was him doing this high pitched whine that he does when he\u2019s anxious or not getting his way.\u00a0<\/p>\n
People in the waiting room were laughing when I was talking to him. \u201cJesse stop that whining. Look you can talk about it all you want but the whining is really annoying.\u201d For some reason he chose that moment to \u201cTalk\u201d and it was like he was back talking me. We became the entertainment in the waiting room.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s got a clean bill of health. I\u2019ve got the documentation that he\u2019s had his boosters, so now I can take him to the groomer.<\/p>\n
When we got home he was tired, I also noticed his head seemed a little warmer than usual. I think the booster they gave him may have made him feel a little punky. He napped the rest of the afternoon and wasn\u2019t interested in his usual sunset ritual. He tends to want to be outside on the deck to watch the sun set and I guess he\u2019s keeping an eye on the critters.<\/p>\n
Last night he was curled up on the couch next to me with his head on my thigh. He wasn\u2019t interested in rope, or ball, or anything other than my scratching his ears every once & and while.<\/p>\n
Even this morning, he\u2019s not fully himself but I can see him improving since we\u2019ve gotten out of bed.<\/p>\n
I know, too much information about the dog.<\/p>\n
You know what? The Dog is way more interesting than the Washington D.C. follies!<\/p>\n
Have a great day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I get to spend some time cleaning the nice car today. Jesse had a Vet appointment yesterday. I hadn\u2019t really thought about the fact that it had been a while since I last drove the station wagon and we\u2019d had a cold snap. OOOppps. The combination, and I suspect the age of the battery in … <\/p>\n