Day 19 - Dog car vs people car

We have the luxury of having enough cars that one can be dedicated to the dogs. My poor T is just a bit too heavy so she has problems jumping right now, so the easiest car for her would be the newest car, but TH wants to keep that for humans. Asking why and he says we have everything in the big car for the dogs so if we go on big trips its ready to go.

Now when he says that the big car is set up for dogs he means that we have water pans and balls in it. Hmm, I guess it would be hard to transfer two water pans and three balls to other car.

The major problem is the hair. You open the door of the big car and hair just flies all over the place. It clogged up the heating vent once, it gets in between, under, above and any crack and cranny you can think of. Dog hair is like much like a pest you wish you could get rid of, but they just keep coming back.

I took the big car in once to be detailed, and when I pulled up they took one look inside and said no way are we going to be able to clean this car. They literally laughed at me. Laughed. We hadn't cleaned the car for maybe a couple of years, but still the hair wasn't more then an inch thick.

Now T doesn't shed as much as WM, but T lets me comb her, WM won't let me comb her. I think the solution to this problem is leave WM at home, TH doesn't feel that would be fair to her. She is getting on in years and he feels she deserves to go on walk with the big boys.

I disagree. She is 13 years old, and while the idea of a walk may appeal to her, physically it isn't really in her cards. Take last night for instance. I didn't have a dog car because the big one is in the shop, so I waited until TH came home so we could take the truck (the truck is much to big for me to drive - another story), so we lifted both dogs into the truck (the WM was much easier to lift) and drove to the Bay Trail. We humans had decided that TH and WM would rest if need be and do what they could while T and I went ahead and got our mileage in. So the minute we got out of the car I had to go to the bathroom (damn water) and said we had to go home. TH wouldn't hear of it and told me to "suck it up". Hmmm. Anyway I tried to put it at the back of my mind and started walking. We agreed not do three miles, but I decided we would do 20 minutes out 20 minutes back - easy peasy.

Well we went ahead immediately, TH didn't even try to keep up with us. The problem with being so far ahead was that T was nervous about them and kept wanting to go back and check that they were still coming, so every few steps she would stop and look behind to make sure they were still there. It is the herding instinct Dog T1 did that too, actually she would run at top speed between the two of us. WH started out fairly strong, but ended up getting slower and slower. By the time we actually turned around I wasn't really sure that WH would make it back to the truck. She was at the very end of her six foot leash and barely able to lift her little legs. I told TH he should probably carry her back, but he was too tired as well (he had already walked to Bart that day.)

We made it back to the truck the dogs got in and WH immediately fell asleep. Life of dogs is so hard especially when humans interfere. Next life I am coming back as a dog.