[Dailydrool] Snoopy and the full moon

[Dale Rutz]

Geez.  That is all I can say is GEEZ!!!  I usually take the boys for a walk in 
the evening and so I put both of their harnesses on and off we went last night.

Now you'd think at least one of you out there could have warned me about walking 
a bell hound of a basset during a full moon.  But nooooooooooooooo.  Or should I 
say AAAAHHHHRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOO??????   The WHOLE confounded walk.  Now Snoopy 
is a sight to walk anyway because like I said he had belonged to an elderly lady 
and had never been to obedience training nor dog walks in his 5 years.  The 
first couple of weeks we had him when you leashed him up he ran straight to the 
car and STOPPED.  Well, now he loves to walk with Cyrus and only tries to drag 
us down the street about 40% of the time, the other 60% of the time he 
impersonates a well behaved dog with a loose lead.  So last night there I was 
with this baying, lunging, pulling creature along with my sedate (and totally 
mortified) Lab trying to take a peaceful after dinner stroll and Snoopy had 
every dog within MILES barking as he AAAHHHRRRROOOOO'd at that moon and pulled 
every which way (including up).  Seriously, somebody could have warned me, you 
know I'm a rookie here.

Oh, and then about a mile from the house there is a house where the owners son 
has a couple of wolves for pets (don't get me started) and they were in the 
yard.  The fence goes right up to the side walk and turns out the wolves were 
all worked up over the moon too.  Well, I couldn't figure out how to get Snoopy 
to stop baying (pastrami didn't work) and so I put him on a short lead and we 
marched past that house and I don't even think his front feet were on the GROUND 
... what a scene.

We got home and Cyrus had a couple of questions for me ... those being:

1)  are you SURE I wanted a little brother?
2)  why does my little brother smell like wet cigars?
3)  what is that LOUD BOOMing noise that comes out of him and why does he do it?
4)  why can't I do it?
5)  can you get my favorite ball back from him, he's hogging it again

Thanks for all of the advise on the dog park.  Beverly had a particular insight 
that I had missed.  She wondered what would happen if I brought Snoopy to the 
park without his "body guard."  Interesting thought, as Cyrus is huge and has 
always been alpha at that dog park even though he has never, ever been in a 
fight... I wonder if Snoopy would behave differently if Cyrus wasn't there?  I'm 
not positive I can try it though because if you separate them now they both cry 
... I took Cyrus once w/o Snoopy and heard that Snoopy cried at home the WHOLE 
hour and Cyrus cried the whole way to the park and then wouldn't play much.  
Still, I bet it's all related.

Wish me luck, I clearly need it.

--Dale
momPerson to Cyrus and Snoopy
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