Friday, June 27, 2008

Marking Territory

Speaking of dogs, when my wife and I had our only pooch, Barney, I thought I could use walking the dog for some good exercise. So mostly everyday I would take Barney out for a good brisk stroll around town. Well I want to tell you that I didn't even break a sweat. Barney's idea of a walk was to smell every thing in sight and then deposit a sample on it. I think Barney had a frequent urination problem. He probably could have used Ditropan. He would stop every 2 seconds to pee. There was browns spot around ever tree and bush in town. Needless to say the walk did not last that long. One good trait Barney did have was ,that he saved his dumps for our back yard where I got to use my poop shovel and poop stick to retrieve it. When I see people jogging with their dogs I think that could have been me if it wasn't for my pooch with the frequent urination problem or as advertiser puts it FUP.
Here is a cartoon that I found in New Yorker Magazine.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I once read an article that stated a male dog was observed peeing 90 times in an hour. Of course, this was the dog proclaiming the territory he marked was his!

I wonder if one walked a male dog in Maine (with all the trees in that lovely green state) if the dog would expire due to dehydration after a couple hours?