Well, it’s more like I ride my ebike and my 4 legged buddy runs along side of me. The new additions to our family, Sweet Pea and Mr Pups have merged with us in such a perfect way, it’s incredible, almost unbelievable, it’s almost like they have been with us for their whole life. A few weeks ago I needed to take a run to the church, it’s a couple of miles up the road from me, it was a semi-sunny day, between the rain storms we have in our monsoons, I decided to take my bike, I noticed as I got my bike out and took it down the hill to the road, Mr Pups followed beside me in such a way that I thought he just might make a good running buddy. I couldn’t take him that day because I needed to get to the church to check on the water up there, it was far too far to expect him to run beside me and I didn’t have time to do anything with him right then.
Fast forward to yesterday, we finally had a break in the rain that had been falling for days, the roads had dried up between the two low water crossings that frame my property and a few properties down the road. I got out my bike and asked Mr Pups if he wanted to go. He was all excited, following me down to the bridge, when I told him he could come with me and opened the gate, he hopped around like a kid!
As I began to ride, he fell in right beside me, not too close, not too far, he didn’t run ahead of me, he seemed to know exactly what to do. Once we got down to the low water crossing that had water in it, I stopped and turned around, I wasn’t sure if he would stay with me or continue across the water, to my delight, he turned with me and fell in right beside me again. I let him set the pace, he ran full out for the first little bit, then slowed to a nice loping pace. We proceeded down about 4 properties away, I’d say around a 10th of a mile. I didn’t want to go any further because my neighbors/friends down that way have a couple of large dogs that are of unknown behavior, they are normally inside of a fence but they did get out last week, I also didn’t have Mr Pups on a leash, and I also didn’t want to run him too hard or far the first time we did this.
We did this circuit about 3 times, stopping on the second round to visit my next door neighbor LL for a while. On the third round, he was visibly going much slower, he is an old man of 8 or 9 years old according to what I’ve been told about him.
Today he seems to be in pretty good spirits, he doesn’t seem stiff or sore, though I can’t imagine how he isn’t at least a little sore, that’s the most activity he’s had since moving in with us last month.
Wretha,
Thanks for visiting!
