Whassup

During our last tracking get together at Auburn Cinema on March 19th, Nadine took pictures while Gimme and I tracked. Here's the best of them.

Since we've been staying home, Gimme and I are walking almost every day and mostly only in our own neighborhood. We've walked at our regular place a few times, but only during the middle of the week. I've noticed there are a lot of people out walking their dogs, who haven't done it before and have no control of their dog or are completely clueless. So it seems prudent to stick with streets with a lot fewer people and where the streets are wider than the path where we'd been walking.

I've developed a route to avoid the worst behaved dogs behind fences. It's two miles and sticks to the relatively flat area.

I've been trying to teach Gimme to get to my side when she sees a car, just like she does for bicycles. It hasn't progressed real well, probably because there just aren't enough cars to make the link.

Like me, many neighbors are doing spring cleaning and such. So we see a lot of FREE stuff by the road. Little Miss Gimme, a/k/a Nosey Posey, always checks out the free stuff. For the most part it's a cursory sniff. However one day she really got into a box and half of her disappeared. Then she came out with a stuffed star. It's a baby toy and doesn't have familiar dog toy smells, so I have no idea what she smelled to cause her to go all-in. She was so happy and carried her prize home.

Since then every time she sees a pile of free stuff, she races to it - filled with hope. When she realizes there's no toy there, she trudges on, all forlorn. Who knew there could be so much disappointment in life...