I decided to start walking the dogs twice a day, so this morning when I got up we went out for a little trot. The dogs were ecstatic, not used to morning walks, jumping everywhere. We didn't even make it down the first block before Sammy crosses under Zeus' lead and wraps around his hind leg. So Zeus goes down and I try untangling this mess and I go down. Before I know it, Zeus is walking down the sidewalk dragging his lead, Sammy is running down the sidewalk, and I am kneeling on the sidewalk with her collar in my hands. The dogs walked away unmarked but I got a little scrape of the knuckle against the sidewalk. They calmed down (as much as they were going to) and the rest of the walk was fine. It takes them a minute to remember how to walk--Sammy's on the right and Zeus is to her left, if she crosses then he jumps over the line. It only took that one mess to remind them.
The main reason I decided to start two walks a day is because the great escape artist decided to jump the fence again, straight into the farmer's field and a bush of burs. This time it was much worse than before, he was literally covered in these tiny things from snout to tail. I brushed some of it out last night and again this afternoon. I've gotten the scissors out and started cutting away hair it's so bad. It's a mess. If I had good clippers I would shave him down completely. It's a good thing we went outside when we did (it's a terribly crazy side story that I won't go into too much detail here, let's just say there was water guns and chasing and outside was my only escape route) or who knows how long he would have been roaming in the field.
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