2 Feb 2013
Good evening, I have
kind of calmed down since yesterday’s diary. I realise that everyone is
not the same and some people are not so thoughtful or considerate as others and
I probably made loads of mistakes because I was not in a good frame of mind.
Today Little Waggatail was to go with me and teen, to the
shops where we have been a couple of
times, I wanted to see how she did. We went on the bus, Did I take the harness
off? No, but I also did not use the harness as I let the handle down, for teen to guide me on. We
stood as there were no seats, we only had one stop to do. I worked her off, as
there is no way, on earth, I can walk off
a bus without getting the people behind me irate as I bounce from seat
to seat, ha. Grabbing anything that feels like a door? I mean, I would rather
keep my dignity and walk off gracefully as sighted people do. The fool who made
it the rule not to use a harness on a bus, I would like to see that person live
in a blind world for a week getting on and off public transport without
using their dog?
We got off smoothly. She was great. She worked brilliantly.
Shops are Waggatails thing, the girl likes to do retail.
I swear, she walks as though she is on high heels. Tottering
along looking in the windows of all the designer shops, well, OK, Tesco, Costa
coffee and Pet’s at home….. But you get the idea?
“You don’t?”
Oh, well let’s jog on?
So she went into her favourite shop, P.A.H. She sat for her
treat for getting me there and if she could have had a basket, she would have
done.
We passed Berty bunny and LWT said hello to him. We passed the
gerbils and all of the other animals. We came to the toys. Oh boy, Waggatail
was in retail heaven. She picked up a toy, only after she sniffed a few out and
decided that was the one she wanted. Then we went to another isle, and she was determined
she knew what toy she wanted, moving all
of the bells, squeaks and ropes to get to the biggest ball in the world. As big
as a beach ball.
Well the dam thing was scooped up in the air, too big for
LWT’s jaw, she nosed it, it went flying down the aisle, bounced off a lady and
back to the goal of Waggatail. Then as
she stopped it with her stocky body, it bounced back again, bouncing banging
and bowling down another isle, just missing a baby in a pram. Teen thought it was hysterical. Rather
than grabbing the ball and putting it back, all clean for the purchaser, he gave me a running commentary about the
game of volleyball.
I died with shame. The blooming noise of it and the fact
that my well behaved guide dog, on harness, was behaving like a delinquent?
We bought a couple of toys, one of them a large teddy with
rope limbs. It’s body squeaks and the other thing is great, it’s a bone, where
by treats can be put into the ends. It
makes a sound too when shook.
I bought them a chew, you know one of those that lasts for
half an hour? Hmm. Right.
We came out of there and she found the coffee shop. We had a
drink and left there, went into Tesco and bought a couple of things for teen.
Then she found the bus, sort of any way.
Teen followed and I would say she did OK, about 3 out of 10 outside of the
shops, in the shops, 8 out of 10.
It was when we got home that was so funny. I
was happy how she got home, she did really well, I mean, all of these houses in
a line, down both sides of the street, and she knows where her house is, I
know, all dogs and cats know where they live, but it is still clever I think, I
mean, they are animals at the end of the day?
So we got in, BB and LC, were excited to find out all of the
news about how the new pup did, as I was trying to tell them, puppy Waggatail,
decided to push in and before we knew it, she had the shopping bag opened and
took out the teddy and held it in her mouth, showing the girls what she, yes
she, had bought. She then put it back on the couch, and rummaged through the
bag again, and took out the other toy, well, then Long Chops liked the look of
that so Waggatail ran away with it an LC chased her. Together they went mad, with
the bone hanging out of Waggatails mouth, with a humongous label still attached
to it. But it was so funny, it was really like she was showing her sisters what
she had bought, it looked so human?
Back home, they have all been fed and watered and now the
toys are put away in the doggy cupboard for another day.
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