I was looking through my blog log (hahahaha, I'm a poet and didn't know it!) and I came across this memory. Oh what a day this was. I believe we had only had Molly for a couple weeks at this point.
So Molly has had a bit of a rough start in our home. She lives with a wild toddler and an even more wild baby. If I were her I would have already eaten both of the kids. Jeffrey likes to lay on her and Bubba likes to grab her tail and hold on while she takes him all over the house (while he is in his walker). Mush, Mush!!!!
Some days I think she would be better off at the shelter where nobody was picking on her and she didn't have to show restraint from biting someone who hurts her or pulls her tail. No matter what, she belongs to us and is a part of our family. We are slowly learning her tells, come to find out all the accidents could have been prevented if we had known that when she licks our knee that means she needs to potty. We know this now and so we have been almost a full week without an accident. These revelations are making our coexistence much happier and easier.
Yesterday, David went out to get the yard ready for mowing. He was removing the fallen Starfruit off the ground by throwing it behind our fence into the Preserve. He never thought about tying Molly up with her long leash since he was outside with her and sure enough, she hopped over the fence to chase a flying fruit. I hear David say, "Missi, I need help out here". I go to the door to find my husband yelling, "Here girl, here Molly". I ask what is going on and he gives me the fast version and tells me to stand and watch her while he gets some food to lure her back into our yard. While standing there I notice that she is going in and out of the wooded area and it seems that each time she is going a little further in. Being the "Outdoors Woman" that I am I'm thinking to myself, I sure hope he doesn't want me to go in there to find her. I was already doing the mosquito dance and I didn't want to trade that in for the wild panther dance. At any rate David says, "if you go out the gate and aim her my way I will catch her." This sounded logical at first so I do as I'm instructed but on my way to my destination the realization of the situation kicked in. I suddenly recognized that Molly was
faster,
quicker,
Much faster,
and faster than me.
Did I also mention that she is faster than me??? (this would be due to her being part Greyhound)
I stood by the opening of the Preserve and waited patiently for her to emerge. With bread in one hand and my fingers on the ready to grab her collar I stood and waited. I looked at David and said, "Do you still hear her?" He said no. And just like that I began to have images of the panther torturing our dog for information about our family. Just as I got to the ancient water torture I hear a loud commotion behind me coming from the lake. Already in wild animal mode I immediately imagined a 14 foot gator coming up from the depth of the water to eat me. I quickly turned only to see Molly come from being fully underwater to jumping out and running around the lake. Great, now I have a WET dog to try to catch. I slowly bent down and yelled, "here Molly, good girl, good girl" but in my mind I was yelling, "don't you dare get me wet you silly mutt". After a few more dips in the water she eyed a large stick just in front of me. At the same time we both lunged for the fallen branch and due to her gifts (being faster than me as I think I mentioned before) she beat me to it. At the speed of light she picked it up in her mouth and began to drag it off.
Eventually, my husband and I were able to out smart her and we captured her. We took her back to the yard where we immediately attached her to her long leash then we sat down and caught our breaths. He looked at me and said, "she is so fast!" I replied with, "not only is she fast but she is also stinky, wet, and covered in lake crud."
In the end we realized we had failed horribly with a small detail. When we brought her home from the shelter we decided to change her name. She was called Sarah when we found her but that name just didn't fit her. Duh, we were yelling her name and she didn't even know it! Needless to say, I'm pretty sure the wildlife sits around and watches our zoo closely. I'm positive we give them the laugh they need each day. "Look at those stupid humans running around in circles trying to catch the dog. Don't they know animals are faster than humans??"
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