Had a little excitement today...

[Johnnie]

Today, my friend Alison and I were scrubbing her horse's mane to get the dandruff stuff out of it. We have a little wash area off to one side of the covered arena where we can hose legs, or rinse off horses quickly since the washracks are down the drive a bit. It's kind of hard to explain, but our barn is built around the covered arena with stalls on both sides. So, we were scrubbing away and suddenly the horse started freaking out, just going nuts. We were pinned against one of the side rails and couldn't go anywhere. I grabbed Alison because I was going to try and slide out through the rails and bring her through with me, but finally the horse moved over enough that we could move and stopped freaking out. What made the horse freak out? A friggin mini-weenie dog and a basset hound crawled between his back legs and we didn't see them. I am so anti-barn dog now, it's not funny. The weenie dog actually followed it's owner down and just doesn't know how to act around the horses. I mean it's not her fault, but she is going to get hurt. The bassett never gets around the horses like that, but I guess she was playing with the weenie dog. Anyway, it was pretty scary there for a second and I was just waiting for the impact.

I almost forgot to mention that I survive that unscathed, but come home and almost break my leg. Me and the devilpup were playing in the house (maybe there is something to that no running in the house thing your mom always told you). This game is where we run back and forth down the hallway taking turns chasing each other. We get down the hallway by the foyer and devildog spins around and takes off to chase me, but I haven't reached the end of the hall yet. He crashes into me leg head on which sends him flying backwards into the foyer wall yelping, and me on the ground in pain. We are both fine now except he has a headache and I have a huge egg on my shin and it hurts to put weight on it. I guess if it's swollen in the morning and still hurts, I'll have to go get an x-ray.

[Smay]

Are you trying to kill yourself? Geez - playing dog tag in the hallway... Playing pin-the-Johnnie in the washrack? Do you have enough insurance for your antics?

[relativecolor]

Johnnie - my chihuahua and I play the same game except if anyone gets hurt, it's usually the chihuahua as I have the size advantage.

[Johnnie]

I have to admit that the devilpup and I do have WAY too much fun. We put up "jumps" in the hallway and I send him down the hall and back over them. Then he stops by me and sits down and gets a treat. Alison and I make him oxers, triple bars, and even a bank out of the ottoman. Outside, I now have him where he will jump up on the picnic table and lay down and wait for me to tell him to jump down. He's also learning to stay on it and let me walk around. Oh yeah, I can also make him jump over Alison..lol.

[niaru]

Johnnie, devil pup is ready for agility school! I do the saem thing with my dog, I have her jump the stadium fences, up on the picnic table, she jumps the yeard's 4 foot fence from a standstill when there's a squirrel on the other side...

With my old dog (a sheperd mutt) I used to play hide-and-seek: I'd throw him a toy and while he was running after the toy I'd go hide in my apartment (in closets, etc). He had a lot of fun looking for me but if it took too long, then he was mad and would jump on top of me and bite me when he finally found me! Loony dog. His name was Loukoum.

ps how's the leg?

[Vida]

Too funny. When I was young and still living at home, my dog and I used to chase each other through a section of the house that we could get all the way around and through about 3 big rooms in a circle. My mother always used to yell as the dogs nails used to scratch up the hardwood floors. On this particular day, Mum had just varnished the floors and the dog couldn't make the turn as it was too slippery and smashed into the dining room table leg. He immediately fell and was out like a light for about 10 long minutes which freaked us all out. I got in big trouble, the dog was fine and then we once again proceeded with our games!