My favorite thing to do is to take my dog Djembe for a hike in the mornings. We’re normally the first ones at the park and pretty much have the trails to ourselves. This allows both of us to enjoy Mother Nature off leash.
What I’ve learned during these walks is that my dog does not care what day it is, all he cares about is that we are at the park.
He doesn’t care which trail we take, he’s just excited to be taking the trail. He absolutely never thinks something terrible could be waiting for us around the corner (like a mugger or a big bad dog.) All he knows is we are at the park and he is happy to be there. One day we had to return back home right after we arrived at the park. He didn’t complain once. He just sat there smiling in the back of the car…. Meanwhile, I was complaining and fussing about it all the way back to the house and pretty much the rest of the day.
The moral of the story?
Just because you are “holding” the leash doesn’t make you the wiser one.
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