Odd Weekend

Well, it's a new week and I'm glad, but this past 3 days has been... well interesting.

On Easter I was out playing with Nubs with the Agility equipment, and look what wondered into my yard:


Sweetest little girl. Not scared of Nubs at all and put him in his place a few times. Agility practice was over since this kitten wasn't leaving, and Nubs was more interested in playing with the kitten then learning to walk on the teeter.




That night, the kitten was sitting on my doorstep crying to come in. There was a nasty little storm coming and I decided that if she was still there when it started she could come in. Well it started and she was still on my porch so she came inside. Nubs did great with her, avoided her and then tried to get her to play. She had no want to play with him, so I let her ride out the storm on my front porch. When it stopped, I let her back outside and I haven't seen her since. She was just a sweetheart though. Well fed and taken care of. I hope that she returned home before the next set of storms hit.

Monday was again Agility class, but this time Class wasn't anything special, before class is where the story was.

I took Nubs out on the scooter to calm him down before class. It was hot, but not too bad so off we went. I noticed when we got a little over half way that Nubs's toe that he ripped off on last Tuesday was showing signs of bleeding again so I decided to just walk the rest of the way home instead of riding on the scooter.

At one point we passed the annoying Golden Retriever that is left outside all the time that charges the fence and tries to scare you off. No big deal, Nubs knows that he can't get out and rarely blinks over it. We had just passed when out of no where this small Black Lab mix decides to dart across the street and start fence fighting with the Golden. I'm stuck since I really can't have Nubs running because of that nail like it is, and he's still attached to the scooter.

Quickly the Lab Mix, see's Nubs and run full stream toward us. I jump in between him and Nubs and give the dog a good shout "GET OUT OF HERE!" The dog darts between my legs and attacks Nubs who is trying to run away and dragging the scooter, which is now on it's side, behind him. I ended up giving the Black lab a good hard few kicks and send him running into the street with this look on his face like "Huh? What????" and I just stood my ground, rushed him and in a low growl told him to "GO AWAY". I guess I scared the pee out of the poor thing because you could see where the dog pee'd in the middle of the road. I felt horrible, but I couldn't let Nubs get hurt any worse.

Well, Nub's was 1 full week not limping and since that fight, he's back to limping. It makes me so MAD that people think it's ok to let their dog's run loose. This is the second time in the past week We've been approached by loose dogs. The first one I was able to get a good start to get away from before that dog even saw us. He still came after, but lost interest.

I know that the people who read blogs like this aren't the issues, but just a friendly reminder to keep your dogs on leash and in your sights at all times if they aren't!