RANT: Leashes!!!!

[Andrea]

I hope you had some good wine & chocolate.

On a lighter note, I have a funny unleashed/uncontained dog story:
I was warming up before my last road race when I heard/saw a huge, droopy basset hound running across his front yard towards me @ full speed. As he approached the road, he jumped the small ditch between the yard/road... only to land with both front feet on his ears. At the speed he was traveling, this resulted in a massive face-plant into the landing side of the ditch. He made a loud THUMP... I have no idea if he kept chasing, because at that point I was laughing so hard that I almost fell over.

That is the only time I've ever felt sorry for a chasing dog. Poor thing didn't know what hit him!

[tulip]

...As he approached the road, he jumped the small ditch between the yard/road... only to land with both front feet on his ears. At the speed he was traveling, this resulted in a massive face-plant into the landing side of the ditch. He made a loud THUMP... I have no idea if he kept chasing, because at that point I was laughing so hard that I almost fell over.

If I'd been drinking my tea, I would have spewed all over my computer!

As for chasing-dogs, I find that squirting them in the eyes with a well-aimed shot of gatorade usually does the trick long enough for me to get away.