The Dog Walking Dance

Sometimes you have the rouge dogs where the owner defy LA laws and allow their dogs to run leash-less. If we every run into one of those we take immediate action and look for the quickest escape route. Luckily in the few years that we have had Daisy I have only had to kick away one dog that was leash-less and came running at her as the owner screamed for her dog to come back. "They make leash laws for a reason. " I said to the owner but she just said her dog wouldn't hurt a fly and that she can control it. I laughed and told what a good job she is doing as I kicked at her dog a second time. The next time I saw this woman her dog was leash-less but as she saw me he quickly leashed her dog. All in all we have a pretty good group of people with dogs who know the rules of the Dog Walking Dance.

Every morning of everyday I walk the dog first thing after getting up. We live in a neighborhood with quite a few dogs and Daisy being the way she is we try and avoid those dogs. Many of the people do they same so everytime we go out it's like a dance. You start down the sidewalk and if you see another dog walking in the opposite direction one of you will cross the street to avoid the conflict. Then another dog will come towards you so you cross the street again. It's a back and forth kind of thing. Sometimes you run into trouble when you see dogs coming from both directions and there really is no where to go. But for the most part people are well verse in this dance and will stop to allow you to get by them with incident.