We were on a surfing beach the other day and there was a middle-aged couple in their wetsuits doing a bit of body boarding. Their little pooch was at the water’s edge obviously feeling a bit confused.
After a while it decided to take off and proceeded to disappear in the direction of the car park and the road.
“Mummy’ spotted that lickle ‘Poochikins’ was missing and waded to the shore, looking this way and that for her absent child. I shouted at her and pointed in the direction that the mutt had gone. Off she ran and as she did, the doggy decided to come back.
When they were reunited ‘Mummy’ came over to say thank you.
“’Poochikins’ is always doing that! He’ll get run over one day!”
“Why don’t you drive a stake in the ground and tie him up when you go in the water?”
“Oh – I couldn’t do that. You understand, don’t you`’.
“Yes” I said, meaning “You’re an idiot – the dog would be much safer and feel more secure if you did”.
“I knew you would – you can’t tie the little darlings up can you?”
She went back to her surfing, the dog got disoriented and once again ran off looking for ‘Mummy’ and ‘Daddy’.
Stupid people.
As a post script, the TG and I were having a beverage at a café next to the road and car park when the couple gave up floundering for the afternoon and returned to their car.
“Come here ‘Poochikins’ – you know you’ve got the car keys fixed to your collar”.
On a Rottweiler or an Alsation maybe, if well trained, but on a tiny, waggy tailed, lick-your-face, greet everyone as an old friend with a tendency to run off all over the place?
Doubly stupid people.
