Dog Encounters

Welcome to Micah's Dog Blog, your one stop shop for canine accounts. I wrote recently about the large number of dogs I have been exposed to recently; here are a few encounters from this week.

Most dogs will bark when you ring the doorbell. Some will stand up with their paws up against the door or a window to get a better view. The dogs at one house I visited took things to the next level: there were at least four of them, in various sizes, and when I rang the doorbell they took turns flinging themselves against the door, adding loud thumps to the usual chorus of barking. A glass window in the door allowed me to see this spectacle, and also served as a testament to the considerable strength glass can have.

One particularly nice house that I went to had two statues of greyhounds flanking the front door. Later, when I went around to the backyard, I saw the two greyhounds that presumably inspired the statues, jumping around in excitement. The odd thing was that they were completely silent; they didn't bark once the whole time I was there (maybe it's a greyhound thing). They were both large and friendly, but it felt very strange to have a dog jumping around me while not making any noise. I could certainly get used to it.

Finally, I met a guest dog at a beach house. The dog's owner had just been staying there a couple days and was on their way out as I was on my way in. A fence enclosed the front yard and the dog seemed reluctant to leave it. I was waiting outside the fence, but the owner said, "Go ahead, she won't hurt you." I thought that was reasonable enough; after all, it was a relatively small dog. I stepped through the fence gate and the dog immediately ran at me and bit me in the leg. I was impressed to find that, even with my trouser leg in the way, the dog had managed to break the skin. Afterwards, the dog consented to leave with her owner, whose only comment was that I must have had something on me that smelled interesting.