(I am writing this post on my phone, so I’m a slave to autocorrect. Any errors are purely unintentional)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pupper and I do walkies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We do big walking in the big big big open spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And we do them off-lead, because pupper is a good girl, doing very well at pupper training classes, and is never more than 3m in front of me or 3m behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pupper and I love our walkies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What we don’t love so much are some of the people we meet on our walkies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But not all of them, because some of them are lovely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like Sue, for example, who runs our pupper training classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sue always stops for a chat, even though she\u2019s wrangling three grown-up dogs of her own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She says nice things like ‘I wouldn’t have believed this was the same puppy you had in class last week.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At least I think that’s meant in a nice way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But then there are the other people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some of them are real counts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They can be rude. They can be obnoxious. And they can always be total counts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This morning (it was 6am when the pupper and I encountered her, so perhaps she’s always a really grumpy teat with a face like a slapped arsenal) we turned a corner in the field and encountered one such count.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She said, ‘Don\u2019t pick him up, you’re only teaching him to be frightened of other dogs.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What a duck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The reason I picked HER up was because the grumpy old teat had no control over her own off-lead dog, that was tracking pupper like a Rapier missile rangefinder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If I wanted the pupper to socialise (which she does very well, with the other puppers, at pupper training class, I would have said ‘By jove, you’re right. I should just let your out of control dog do what it wants with our three-month old pupper. You are indeed a wise and wonderful woman!’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Except she certainly wasn’t wise, obvs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But why would she even think that me protecting the pupper from a dog I hadn’t seen before, an off-lead dog, and an off-lead dog that was ignoring every single voice command from the woman, would be a bad thing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bad for whom?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bad for the pupper? (if so, please explain in no less than 550 words and give an example of howso)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then there was the other fat old count, a few days ago, who had an off-lead dog called Tess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tess was an expert at ignoring voice commands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The fat old count’s ‘Oh leave it alone Tess’ (where ‘it’ is our pupper, who was the target of Tess, bearing down on her like a locked-on Exocet missile) was studiously ignored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Until I stepped between Tess and the pupper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At that point the fat old count said ‘Come on Tess’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tess decided, at that point, that continuing with the person she ignored rather than duke it out with me was the better of the two options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So far these are the only two examples of stupid teats, but both of them managed to take stupidity to a whole new level of countiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What a pair of duckheads<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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