Jack of Harts

The Puppy Rides Again.

You may have read what I’ve written about the new puppy before. The night we took her from her person’s home, she was…unhappy. She fought. She nearly sent me sprawling down the stairs to keep me from taking her from home. And then the whole way in the car she was screaming and snarling and growling. And whenever we stopped, she would shout at anybody nearby that she was being dognapped.

Well, after relating that to her person’s kids, they told us that she doesn’t like car rides. No kidding. I thought that was a rather interesting downplay of her hatred of cars, but I figured it was mostly because she hadn’t seen her person in days and we were taking her away from her person’s home. And she didn’t want to leave.

Though we still approached her trip to the pet doctor with trepidation. It went off without a hitch. She was happy and went along with it like any dog on a ride. So, when it was time to do errands today, we chose to take her with to see how she would respond.

The short answer is, like any other dog. She sat up, looked out, and watched everything just like other dogs do. She never complained. She loved it. Well, that was anticlimactic. Nice. Certainly no Hell Ride From Beyond like the first one. And definitely not what I was worried would happen.

Tomorrow, she gets to go get her hair cut and her claws trimmed. We shall see how she enjoys that ride once it happens. I’m beginning to get optimistic though.