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My husband just came back from walking The Demon and called up to me. "Honnnnnney... you know how we always wondered what would happen if Dino jumped into the River... Well I just found out." I seriously thought he was kidding but the joke went on too long and then he asked me to bring a couple of towels down to the entry way.
Happy hubby (or not so HH as the case may be at the moment) took The Demon for his nightly jaunt in this dog run by the river in our townhouse complex. There was all the normal peeing and pooping and ball chasing. And then... there was this rabbit... (HH *says* it was a rabbit--I bet it was a RAT!!!) The Demon, of course, gave chase. The fence in the dog run is not very high in some places because the land slopes, and there are also a few holes where an industrious Demon could get through under the fence. The next thing HH knows: SPLASH!!!
We always wondered if The Demon could swim and often joked that he gazed longingly at the river when we took him over there. Ha ha. Very frickin' funny now.
In addition to the fact that its DARK, there is a drop off of indeterminate height between where the land cuts off and the water starts, and all this wood poking up and other *stuff* at the end of the water. And there is a current. Oh yes, and the boats that come along almost constantly that would never have seen them...
But, out of crazy love for The Demon, HH jumped right in. He called out to some people on the bridge but they didn't hear him so HH swam across holding The Demon in a lifeguard grip because his collar had slipped off when HH was tring to get him. They got to the East Bank Club (a giant health club on the river) and HH as able to clamber them out.
Can you believe this??? I can't be made at HH for saving The Demon, but what if one or both of them had DROWNED???
Fortunately the river has just been upgraded from TOXIC to POLLUTED.
I am going upstairs right now and taking some aspirin and having a drink.
Happy hubby (or not so HH as the case may be at the moment) took The Demon for his nightly jaunt in this dog run by the river in our townhouse complex. There was all the normal peeing and pooping and ball chasing. And then... there was this rabbit... (HH *says* it was a rabbit--I bet it was a RAT!!!) The Demon, of course, gave chase. The fence in the dog run is not very high in some places because the land slopes, and there are also a few holes where an industrious Demon could get through under the fence. The next thing HH knows: SPLASH!!!
We always wondered if The Demon could swim and often joked that he gazed longingly at the river when we took him over there. Ha ha. Very frickin' funny now.
In addition to the fact that its DARK, there is a drop off of indeterminate height between where the land cuts off and the water starts, and all this wood poking up and other *stuff* at the end of the water. And there is a current. Oh yes, and the boats that come along almost constantly that would never have seen them...
But, out of crazy love for The Demon, HH jumped right in. He called out to some people on the bridge but they didn't hear him so HH swam across holding The Demon in a lifeguard grip because his collar had slipped off when HH was tring to get him. They got to the East Bank Club (a giant health club on the river) and HH as able to clamber them out.
Can you believe this??? I can't be made at HH for saving The Demon, but what if one or both of them had DROWNED???
Fortunately the river has just been upgraded from TOXIC to POLLUTED.
I am going upstairs right now and taking some aspirin and having a drink.