A fearsome Guard Dog.

Or a bit of a PUDDING….

The evidence is mounting on the latter.

At night he won’t go out in the garden unless someone goes with him. The times I’ve stood outside in the rain waiting for the 85 month old puppy to cock his leg….

At the weekend one of the houses down the lane was having a kiddies birthday party, the way to the mayhem being flagged by balloons. Our dog walk goes past that house and down that lane. I had to pick him up and carry him past every single balloon. He is scared of balloons….

He is also scared of tractors which is a bit of a pain in the rear end, living in the country, surrounded by farms. He’s petrified of the Vet, one of my sisters, scissors, washing machines, the coffee machine, next door’s wheelie bin and scalextric cars. But to be fair to him he is not scared of cats, some dogs, horses, sheep, cows, cars, fireworks, postmen and anything offering him cheese.

He’s a bit of a pudding really…

51 thoughts on “Guard Dog”

  4. Man’s best friend! I’m ok with balloons but I have my own list of things that freak me out. I don’t usually require Mick to carry me down the lane but I don’t look half so winsome curled up on the couch. He’s adorable.

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  10. I was once walking a neighbor’s full-grown sheepadoodle, and when the wind fluttered a Halloween decoration, Maisie jumped up on me to cradle her like a baby. Of course, we both tumbled to the ground (neither was hurt). She is definitely a “pudding,” a word I have never heard used to describe a dog, but it fits.

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  11. Bought in an auction in Cardigan in 1997 for £20, our pony was not scared of:
    Tractors 🚜 or huge lorries 🚛 trundling past, having his feet done by a stranger, he wasn’t scared of acting the drunken loon from eating fermented apples dropped from a tree into his field, and don’t get me started how he wasn’t scared of going bonkers after eating the magic mushrooms that popped up in that field each year!!
    However, I recall his scared list was short of just two things: Anyone walking past in flipflops or the vet innocently peddling past on his pushbike (he would stare at him and keep his bum in the opposite direction) but in all fairness, the vet had taken his temperature once and he had never forgot).

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  12. The pup in my life doesn’t like the rain, but her rain slicker helps to keep her other layers dry, and free from the grime splashing up from below too! Coolers in the grocery stores freak her out, and she walks around or jumps over any storm drain grates on sidewalks and streets. Wonder why the pup has anxiety about balloons? Unpredictability? Maybe he’s scared of aliens (UFO’s)? I prefer to think of anxiety as a healthy survival instinct…but panic whipping around on the other end of the leash is unsettling. Not sure if thunder jackets (swaddling) is effective, but I like to snug dog jackets tight; in case it helps. I know cozy can’t hurt.

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  15. He’s adorable! My dog was weirdly terrified of the scale at the vets. They could do anything else to her and she’d have a great old time… try to get her on the scale and it was like nope, not happening! They are so much fun though 🙂

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  23. I have a story for you about a boy and his dog in India, the boy taken from his home, his grandfather’s, by his parents no outer contact allowed whatsoever. In a custody dispute, who ever considers the pain of the dog losing their child? Is it enough for the dog to do what we all suspect they do with us but have not yet outright spoken about it? That’s come into our dreams. “The System Failure” a photo-poem at Harm’s End WordPress com

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