Nobody else wanted my dog, and that's pretty much why I now have him. I often wonder why no one else wanted such a lovely, handsome and goofy fellow, he loves the kids and he has a clumsiness that is very endearing…... but then there are times like today that I don't bloody want him either.
He is a hunterway collie cross and like many of his kind he has a wiring of the brain issue. It only happens now and again but when a slight adjustment of the minute connections causes a fuse out, he loses the plot.
He generally co-exists with the ponies, no problem. But for reasons that hold no common link he sometimes decides to jump the fence and run around and around and then when they eventually get fed up and bugger off he gives chase.
Its not ideal, he is quite large and they are quite fast and his ears turn off and as I said his brain becomes awash with instinct. I do what I generally do when something is not going as I had planned, I yell and I scream and I stamp my foot. …..but he couldn't give a hoot.
When he is done, he smiles at me, yes smiles and I tell him that he is naughty and then he behaves himself for awhile. But well it is only a matter of time before he does it again and I have to wonder why….why do I have to have a dog with a Jekyll and Hyde syndrome, I wish only for a simple life, with quiet children, lawns that mow themselves and a dog that doesn't malfunction.
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