[goldendog]

This week’s adventure started with our normal 4pm walk around the neighborhood to the post office and back through the neighborhood.

Everything was going fine and the walk was uneventful until…..we were going to cross the street to walk our final neighborhood home when I noticed a woman walking two dogs crossing the street heading in the same direction we were going. She had a small poodle and a collie. So to keep things calm I waited a little and held back giving them space for their walk.

As we cross the street to continue the walk I noticed the woman was slowing down and her dogs then spotted us and the poodle barked. Z does not like to be barked at so she barked back. I gave her my best Cesar “tsch” to correct her and said with me and we continued on.

The woman next stops at her house and walks to the garage with her dogs. So I decided they must be in the house or at least under control and continued to walk past. Then the little poodle comes racing out of the garage to the edge of his lawn barking away. Z starts to bark but I correct her and move forward to the opposite side of the street. The poodle, which is dragging its leash, is now coming into the street and running towards Z and barking. The woman tries to catch the poodle unsuccessfully, apologizing. I stopped so that she could catch the dog as it is a street well-traveled and did not want the dog to get run over.

I have now shortened the leash on Z and I noticed her hair on her back is rising up. And now to complicate things the collie comes charging out at Z from her backside. Z is being patient much to my surprise. I am holding on to her while a poodle is barking at her face and a collie is charging up from behind. I told the woman this was not good as Z was scared. She apologized and gathered her two dogs and Z and I proceed on our walk home.

I praised Z telling her she did well. As it could have been very ugly with the two dogs if Z had decided to stand her ground instead of being good.