Oh what a Thursday!

You won't believe what happened to me on Thursday.  We got up and skipped our 3 mile walk.  (I should have figured something was funny then, but I didn't).  Then Mom popped me in the car and we took off.  "Oh, boy!" I thought, "We're going to the dog park!"

But Mom turned left at Thompson Peak.  (The Dog Park is right.  I know that!).  So maybe we're going to Always Unleashed.  That's left.  But wait, Mom, you missed the turn!  I started making lots of noises to let her know that she was lost, but she kept on going.

We were far out in some place called Cave Creek.  (There were no caves and no creeks.  This is the desert for heaven sakes!)  Then we turn into a street called East Forest Pleasant Place.  Who do they think they're kidding?  There's nothing but dry dirt and bushes here.  And just wait till I tell you what happened there and you won't think it was such a Pleasant Place either!  The sign outside said, Partners Dog Training.  Was I going to Dog School here? 

Well we hung around the entrance to I-didn't-know-what with a bunch of other dogs and they wouldn't let us play together.  What a waste.  Then they put a ginormous leash on me and a collar with a box.  Look at all this leash!

 

Then...they took me into a tunnel of bushes without Mom.  I didn't know where we were going or what they were going to do to me.  It was a big bald guy who had the leash.  I knew I was going to do anything he said.  I was ascared!

 

 

 

The first thing we came to was a bunch of snakes.  Big, awful snakes.  And they smelled.  OUCH!  That blue box on my collar pinched me!  Just when the snake smell was the worst.  Then we started to go away from the smell and just as it was getting better, the big bald guy took me back towards the smell, but I wouldn't go.  I didn't want to get pinched again.  That was not fun! 

 

So then....we went to another place where there were more snakes and these snakes sounded like a bunch of baby rattles.  Just as I heard the rattles, OUCH, the blue box pinched me again.  I'm staying away from rattles forevermore.

 

Then we went to one more place.  And this time a pretty girl with lots of pink clothes came to help.  It was 75 degrees out.  Why was she wearing all those clothes?  But when she showed up, we walked around a little and then I smelled snake and I ran the other way.  No way were they going to get me close to a smelly snake and get me pinched again.  I'm not stupid. 

 

Finally, we went back through the bushy entrance and as soon as I saw my Mom, I ran toward her and dragged the pretty pink girl with me.  I wanted to go home.  NOW.  But first the pretty girl stopped and told my Mom that I was AMAZING.  (But you all knew that already.)  She said that I learned right away not to get near a snake.  (She also told mom that I was really well behaved, because I was heeling with her when she walked with me.  Actually, I was just too ascared not to be good!)

 

 

 

Anyway, we finally got home and I was wiped.  I went out in my own back yard WITHOUT ANY SNAKES.  (I did check first!).

 

      Hope you had a better week than me.

 

Love, G.