This has become the latest request every time anybody goes near mum.... "Can you walk the dog for me?" Now mum & dad got Sheba to replace Donna after she died at a time when everybody though dad was closer to death that he is right now. He was going through a bad spell with his MS and they insisted that Sheba would be good company for mum and get her out of the house. They had forgotten just how much of a chore walking Donna had become. I argued that another dog would become a liability but no, mother was going to have another dog, another Welsh Border Collie, another dog that requires lots of regular exercise.
And now I'm expected to find time to walk a dog that isn't mine!
Well, while I was gardening this afternoon Suzie took the dog to a local park to walk with Carole and her dog Nero (a Doodle). The dogs go into a stream, Nero gets out, Sheba gets stuck in the mud, and in pulling her out Carole ends up face down in the stream and soaked from head to toe.
And now they wonder why I won't walk the dog!
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