Boxing clever on dogwalking duty
IFOR the past 10 weeks the whole of the UK has been walking.
If each of us had been sponsored we could have raised enough money to finance a Track and Trace system (don’t get me going).
Boris and his advisors closed down just about everywhere else leaving us very little option but to walk.
People who have never left their armchair for months have been padding the footpaths.
In the main it’s been quite pleasant, people have been very polite stepping aside on narrow paths to give more space etc.
If, however you own a small dog you will have seen things from a very different perspective. I was walking a little dachshund around the park yesterday when a well-built young man strode towards me with a highly-excited boxer dog jumping shoulder high.
“Can he come and say Hello,” he called as the boxer bounced into overdrive. “What do you think?” asked nodding towards my terrified little dog.
The answer was obvious but why would anyone think allowing a 36Kilo dog to jump all over a tiny little dachshund was a sensible thing to do? I actually saw a lady owner sat on a park bench taking alternate licks with her dog at an ice-cream cone. Look, I love dogs but c’mon. I don’t know what that dog had been licking beforehand but I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t find it on a shelf at Sainsbury’s.
The phrase you want to beware of coming from the owner of a large dog is, “He only wants to play,” which can mean anything from sniffing your crotch to ripping your arm off at the socket.
Now, when I have my dog sitting quietly by my side and a passer-by asks can I stroke him I used to say no.
Quite often they would take offence so what I say now is, “Certainly, but he’s being treated for a highly contagious skin disease.”
That usually does the trick without any bad feelings.