Doggie Teachers

My sweet doggie was one of my greatest teachers, too. In the sixteen and a half years we were together I took her for a walk every single day. We had more than our share of encounters with other dogs. I learned that my doggie had absolutely no fear whatsoever of any other dog (or any other animal).

One day I put the shoulder harness on her and attached the leash and said to my family, “Okay, I’m taking the dog for a walk.” My sweet loving doggie and I were walking through the neighborhood when we passed a house that had four giant chow dogs inside. The front door to this house was open but the screen door was closed.

Chow dogs have been raised for many centuries by the Chinese for the purpose of hunting and killing wolves. Well, my doggie was 16% Gray Wolf and 84% Siberian Husky. Those Chow dogs could smell that 16% wolf in her and they tore right through that screen and ran to attack my sweet doggie. All four of those dogs were as big or bigger than my loving wolf-dog. All four of them converged on her simultaneously.

All I could do was drop the leash and step back so that I would not be mauled being in the middle of it. I stood utterly transfixed as I watched my sweet loving doggie turn into an unbelievably ferocious wolf. Within one minute all four of those Chow dogs were running away as fast as they could. My wolf-dog stood up to four dogs viciously attacking her and she beat them! She sent them all running. I couldn’t believe what I witnessed.

When the other dogs were long gone my doggie looked up at me as if to say, “Okay, we can keep walking now.” So I picked up the leash and we finished our walk. First, though, I checked her for injuries. She only had one small superficial scratch on her cheek. I kissed it and made it better.

That dog was the sweetest, most loving dog I have ever met. She was especially loving with small human children. She loved them all. She also loved meeting other dogs and wanted to play with all of them. She loved all living things and was afraid of nothing. But if need be, she could be as ferocious as she was sweet. I was positive if anyone were to attack me or my family that she would have done anything to protect us.

Anyway, ever since that day of the encounter with the Chow dogs I no longer said to my family, “Okay, I’m taking the dog for a walk now.” From then on I always said, “Okay, the dog is taking me for a walk now.”