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26 April 2009

My Dog Has Issues

I was taking Clara for a longish stroll on the trail this fine Sunday afternoon-approaching-dusk sort of time, and it was very cold. I started thinking about how I was probably the only lunatic who would be taking my dog for a longish stroll at this bizarre time of day and stationary fronts, but it turns out we ran into a few other dogs. The strange thing about these dogs is they didn't respond like normal dogs do to Clara's social ineptitudes (sniffing, looking bewildered, listening to their masters, backing away slowly), but they did exactly what she does. They growled and barked and had all this hostility towards Clara for no apparent reason, which is exactly what she does to other dogs. It was alarming at first to find another dog as insane as Clara when it comes to being within a five-foot radius of any other canine, but once it happened a few more times, I started thinking if maybe everyone who has socially inept dogs takes them out on the trail for longish walks at the same time in hopes of avoiding other normal dogs. Maybe all of us masters with psycho pets find cold, cloudy, strange-time-of-day days to be the safest time to go out with said dogs without encountering any conflicts. If this is the case, we're all just setting ourselves up for disaster.
If all of the abnormally hostile-toward-other-dogs-but-no-other-creature dogs go out at the same time, there is a much higher chance that we will all run into each other along the trail at some point, and ridiculous barking, growling and choking of self in attempt to break leash and maul other dog will ensue. This is bad news. Bad news bears.
Hence, I propose that all psycho dog owners take your dogs out at any time of day when a normal dog would be out, such as mid-afternoon, 8-9am, or even around dinner, when the sun sets. People like walking in the sunset. Or sunrise, for that matter. This way, if any dogs are encountered, chances are they will be normal and the aggression will be one-sided. If everyone starts doing this, than all the abnormal dogs will be equally dispersed throughout the day or night, and you will probably encounter them less. Let the be no more of this antisocial dog segregation time. Let us all live together in relative harmony. Walk your dog when everyone else does.

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