Throwing your weight around……
Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Throwing Your Weight Around Lovers: I guess I never really thought about that statement before yesterday. As I was blogging earlier about our nice, leisurely walk in the park I left out something not so leisurely.
We were leaving the park and heading home and down the street comes a RED pit bull, boxer mix.
This is not the dog but it looked like a huger version of this picture. The dog looked like it weighed about 120 pounds soaking wet. GULP…….
It had on one of those giant Spanish Inquisition Collars, or at least that is what I call them.
I could see it from a mile away. I know Chaps hates RED dogs. Is that not the strangest thing? He dislikes some other dogs, but he HATES RED dogs. Watch out Clifford.
Anyway, I always do my don’t come close to us maneuver which is I pull the kids off of the sidewalk onto a driveway or yard. I try to turn Chaps away from the RED menace to his mind so he cannot see it but how stupid is that, he can smell that color!
So, the gal walking Clifford is a smart girl and crosses the street. If she had come just a few steps closer I would have told her that I had a dog that was “somewhat” aggressive. *cough*
She probably smelled my shoulder socket’s fear! Just as they passed us as perfect citizens Chaps reeled around and got into a stance that amazed me. His shoulders and hips expanded to a huge size and he went nuts. Cesar would not be proud.
I could not believe how huge Chaps became. Is that what they mean by throwing your weight around? I wish I could have taken a picture but that was not an option. Clifford passed without a glance in Chaps direction. Maybe there is something to be said about the Spanish Inquisition. (just kidding)
What’s a Mom to do? From Mr. Smiling in the green grass,
To Mr. Mean and bad citizen?
More needing your advise sooner than later…..Cat, Chaps and Emma
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buster HATES boxers (okay and huskies too..but not as bad). he sees a boxer and becomes this crazed 43 lb screaming thing. at the park he launches himself after them and runs at warp speed screaming and barrels into them, never actually does any damage but seems to want to tell them that he is a BASSET DAMNIT and he rules the world. no matter if it is a 200 lb boxer or a 20 lb one…he doesn’t care. he came like that…from day one…he’s a rescue so who knows. same with the huskies.
i have also seen him terrorize a 220 lb intact mastiff who tried to look at his milk bone…so my boy is a touch insane.
he is however afraid of walking in the woods because evil things lurk in the woods…like giant trees and rocks….and animals.
I know what you mean about those collars. They look so medieval and cruel.
I think people and dogs get out of the way out of respect for the Mayor and Our Emma.
Ugh, I hate those collars! I’m relieved that there was no “incident”. That surely would have been a wonderful picture of the Mayor–remember Spike the Bulldog in the Looney Toons cartoon who wears the sweater and bowler hat and scowls and gets that HUGE stance? That’s what popped into my mind!
Just remember…..”NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition”… (for Monty Python afficionados;)…
Mary, Harley, Biggs and Leo
Mary – LOL!
Say the following with a hard French accent!
“Does your dog bite?”
“No, my dog does not bite.”
(man pets dog and get bit)
“I thought you said your dog does not bite!”
“This is not my dog.”
Love Monty Python
Cat
Mary – I totally screwed that up. That was from from Pink Panther!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXn2QVipK2o
Thanks for a great laugh this morning.
BWAHAHAHA! Love the Pink Panther! And I’m such a Monty Python groupie–Ahhh, just sitting here pining for the fjords:)
Mary, Harley, Biggs and Leo
“Apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?”