Hi everyone! Hope everyone has been having a great week!
So this week I want to talk about some chicken skin stuff I experienced this week while doing a few visits and my own walk. The first gross experience was with one of my favorite clients, Hercules, who is a 13 year old Golden Retriever. He is such a well-behaved dog, and usually eats right away after I put his food in his bowl. However, on my last visit with him he was preoccupied with something behind a table in his house. Thus, I moved the table forward to see what he was so engrossed with, and I had this feeling it was going to be something I wouldn’t like. Well, I was right. Next thing I knew Hercules had a dead mouse in his mouth, and he took it to his favorite spot. Of course I told him to drop it and go away, which he did. Then I had to find something to get rid of this disturbing sight, so I found some wooden chopsticks and put the critter in a bag and threw it away outside. OMG! I’m not usually easily squirmish, but this was disgusting. I’m just glad Hercules is okay, and that Momo and MJ don’t do that. Whew! Oh, but we’re not done for that day yet.
On that same day, but at night time, I was taking Momo and MJ out for a walk, and we were walking by our neighbor’s house when they started barking. I asked them what they were barking at, and when I looked up I saw the neighbor’s German Shepherd, Lilikoi, 2 doors down from us running towards us barking. MJ was in his stroller, so I turned him, and I saw Lilikoi close to Momo, so I pulled Momo up to safety. Then the neighbor’s daughter came and took Lilikoi away and drove off without even checking to see how we were or apologizing. I’m sorry, but I don’t care if you’re embarrassed, you still have no right to be rude. I understand things happen, and dogs get loose sometimes, and fortunately we were not hurt, but you can still rectify the situation and make sure everyone’s ok. There is a lesson in that story for everyone, please always be aware of your surroundings, and carry protection for you and your dogs, and take responsibility for you and your dog’s actions.
Anyways, the next day came along, and I was hoping I wouldn’t be experiencing anything else unusual. However, that was not going to be the case. The next day I went to do a visit for these 2 dogs and some fish. When I go to feed the fish I notice 2 fish right up at the top of the aquarium upside down. I am so disturbed and saddened by this sight. Death freaks me out, including the deaths of fish. I don’t know what happened. Maybe I fed them too much, or something happened to their filter, or they were sick. I don’t know because the other fish in that tank was fine, and the other fishes in the other tank were fine.
So then later on that day I went to do another visit with one of my regulars, and I take her outside in the front to play each time I visit. I notice every now and then dead centipides in the grass. Just the look of any insect freaks me out, and especially the look of centipides. Plus, I don’t want them to hurt any of the dogs that play in the front, so I usually get a stick and get rid of them. Anyways, this day I noticed 2 centipides, and it just freaked me out that they are becoming more consistent and increasing in number. It makes me not want to go outside or to always wear shoes when going outside there. EWWWW….
Well, that was my week full of rodents, canines, amphibians, and insects. AAAHHH….Gross.
Until next week…have a good one. Aloha.
~*Tara, Momo, and MJ*~