[Dailydrool] Rat-face Ruby bears a message--what does it mean?

[Val Brewer]

For the past four days, when Harley's vagrant chihuahua girlfriend, Ruby, has shown up at our house for her self-arranged playdates with Harley, Ruby has borne a message. I just can't figure out what it means. 
 
Attached to Ruby's collar and floating out behind her like a kite-tail is a hot pink nylon leash. The leash bears the embroidered name of a local veterinary hospital and its telephone number. Ruby goes home at night, but the leash never seems to come off. I have never seen a human attached to the handle side of the leash. So far Ruby has not become snagged in any trees as she roams the neighborhood ( a new worry of mine) trailing her hot pink train. Sometimes someone in the neighborhood will try to tie up the leash to her collar like a big bow, but it unravels fairly quickly. We have been trying to guess the purpose of Ruby's new accoutrement.
 
Is it there in case she gets hit by a car roaming the streets, so the driver will know where to take her in an emergency?
 
Is it there to suggest that Ruby has simply slipped away from a walker and is not really roaming loose, in case the dog-catcher drives by?
 
Is it a lame attempt at an "identification" tag--one step removed?
 
Is it a long handle to grab Ruby if she goes after someone to bite them (like my husband!)?
 
Or is it a present from Ruby's guardian angel, so that when I walk my own two hounds and Ruby tags along, she is no longer free to zigzag in and out of traffic? I have been using it this way. Previusly when Ruby tagged along, I have always had to stick to back streets with little traffic, and even then she scared me to death a couple of times with bad judgment (hers). Now I have her on a leash along with my two and I, at any rate, feel safer.
 
The saga continues.
 
 
 
 


      
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