Dogs at the Transport Festival

I was in my garden last Sunday when I heard the horrible sound of a small dog in panic shock and pain, which along with shouts and screams made it obvious some poor thing was being savaged. When I went down to the festival shortly afterwards it was immediately apparent how such a thing was just waiting to happen again. I saw dog after dog being taken around by their owners (and some just roaming off lead) on a very hot day.

A dog's emotions, just like a human's, are lot less predictable and stable when their mood state is altered.

Don't you get a bit tetchy when someone (who shall be nameless) drags you out shopping, you have crowds of strangers milling around, you didn't want to be there in the first place, you're hot and tired and all you want to do is sit down with a nice cold drink?

If you want to produce a grumpy dog that will fly off the handle in a nanosecond, why don't you wait until it's 27 degrees then drag him around a noisy crowded place where all he can see from his height is a confusing forest of legs.

Next year why don't you say to him "What do want to do boy, troll around the roads, the field and canal with me in the heat (oh, and by the way don't forget to put your nice fur coat and hat on) or would you like to stay on the cool kitchen floor with a nice big bowl of water and I'll take you out later when the crowds have gone and it's not so warm"

Please send his answer on a post card to:
Relieved little dog of Audlem
Ward 20
The Dog Hospital

See also a recent article on a similar topic, here.

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