Saturday, January 14, 2006

Dog agility

Years ago my auntie had a mongrel dog called Laddie. He was the smartest dog I've known. One time he was taken along to some dog agility sessions where my auntie's alsation and a load of other alsations were supposed to be trained to run through tubes, climb up and down frames, that kind of thing. It was for alsations only, so Laddie wasn't allowed to join in. He had to sit and watch these dumb alsations dicking around, running off in wrong directions or just refusing to co-operate.

At the end of the final session he got off the lead, ran onto the course and completed all the obstacles without stopping. After this performance, he ran back to his starting spot and sat down as if nothing had happened. It was like he was saying "I'll show you how it's done!"

They tried to get him to do it again but he'd lost interest.

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