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09-13-2012, 02:16 PM | #1 |
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| Maggie came so close to getting run over today Maggie waits by the door every evening for Daddy to come home. She lets me know by crying and carrying on. I wait for him to park and I open the door and she tears off to greet him. Tonight it was time, she carried on, I waited BUT this time I didn't look out the side window first (driveway on side). She took off and we both saw that Dad wasn't there after all and she must have seen someone else. As she is running to the driveway the lady across the street pulls up at the corner. She has a sedan to. She drive down the road (we are 2houses from the corner) and as she's pulling into her driveway Maggie is racing over there thinking it's her dad. Maggie got all the way to the garage entrance just as the lady stopped the car. Any sooner and she would have rolled over Maggie (though Maggie would hopefully have stayed to the side, waiting for the driver to exit.). I was screaming and running. The lady never heard me or didn't care. She got out, never looked back and shut the garage. I would have died and my hubby would have divorced me! THAT lesson has been learned. NEVER let her out unless I KNOW why she was crying for sure. |
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09-13-2012, 02:18 PM | #2 |
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| What a scare....I am so glad that Maggie is OK!!!
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09-13-2012, 02:23 PM | #3 |
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| Whew! That's sooo scary.
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09-13-2012, 02:31 PM | #4 |
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| (Aunty Kim... I love your siggy!) OMG! Maggie! You're lucky that lady didn't think your Mommie was totally off her rocker and call the police or pull out a gun! Crazie Yorkie Mommies running madly after their runaway Yorkies is never a pretty sight! I let Peek A Boo out to greet the bus driver, we're on a back street, dead end road. On the 6th day, he ran toward the driver waiting to greet him, then made a sharp right and off he went down the road and around the corner, before I even knew it! Not towards the woods, but in the direction of heavy traffic! He went in a front yard 3 houses down that had a dog in the fenced back yard, and the fence extended up the side to the road, Thank God! Got his little butt cornered and snatched him up.... no more out of the yard without a leash!
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09-13-2012, 02:39 PM | #5 |
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| Wow, how scary! I'm glad it ended up fine, but geesh... She must have given you a heart attack!
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09-13-2012, 03:44 PM | #6 |
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| Bet you are still hypervetilating! Close call. Glad she's okay! Whew!
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09-13-2012, 05:52 PM | #7 |
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| wow glad she is ok.
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09-13-2012, 08:09 PM | #8 |
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| I am very happy to hear Maggie is okay! I'm sure that was a scare of a lifetime.
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09-13-2012, 08:19 PM | #9 |
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| OMG what a close call! Yeah sometimes we can get too comfy and think our yorkies are perfectly trained, but you never know! Just today, I was helping a customer load up a bike in his car. Uni always like to come outside, and usually USUALLY! stays on the sidewalk and hangs out just to watch. Well when we close up the car and everything she's not on the sidewalk. Turns out she went off the sidewalk, about 5 ft closer to the car (in the parking lot) and I didn't see her do it bc I was busy. The car started up and I still didn't know where she was. When I called her, she came running from the side of the car. If he had reversed in such a way she could have been hit! He didn't move an inch, but it was enough for a wake up call for me! Don't ever let her outside if I'm busy!
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09-13-2012, 08:53 PM | #10 |
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| capt, Maggie is not trained. Well, I think she does know what wait, stop and come mean, but when her eye is on the prize all bets are off. She knows commands but often only responds if she feels like it. I do not trust her to listen when danger arises. Normally, if we were just outside I would spot a car and pick her up. This day, she was off like a bullet from the front door to the driveway to see dad (who wasn't there!) and she was so far ahead of me I couldn't catch her. She sure is fast and she sure loves when her daddy comes home. She cries like she is in pain until I let her out to greet him. If I don't know for sure that he is parked I will carry her until I can see. Today I knew I had waited long enough for him to be parked so I let her go. Obviously never again and clearly I am lucky. I know not everybody gets that warning lesson. Of course I am not telling him, because he is a man and I know he will get on my case about it....sorry capt, but you must know men never make mistakes right??? Thanks guys for the support. It was a rough day for my heart. Tonight there were police lights outside that for minute seemed to be in front of my house. With two college age boys who were out for the evening (and they are not goodie goodie boys) , my heart almost stopped for the second time today. Glad I'm in decent shape! |
09-14-2012, 03:41 AM | #11 | |
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I hope you have a better day today glad Maggie is ok
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09-14-2012, 04:26 AM | #12 |
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| im glad shes ok!!
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09-14-2012, 04:39 AM | #13 |
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| wow that was a close call and I feel for you. I have learned this type of lessons several times so I am to the point Lola is never off leash in our yard since it is not fenced. She has often run to greet a person or to grab a toy and then see something else like a squirrel that will distract her so in a nano second she starts running in the opposite direction than you expect her to. I would never be able to catch her an she will not always come when called. I am so glad you got lucky
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09-14-2012, 05:00 AM | #14 |
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| I though having a pet was supposed to relieve stress. This topic reminds me of a (now) funny story. We had just returned to our dock from being on the lake, my hubby thought Kirby, our last dog would stay right by us as we unloaded and went up to the house, our yard is long and up hill. Well Kirby takes off at a fast pace towards the street. So now I start running up the hill through the yard as he is already running down the middle of the street, so now I am running/panting, arms waving, barefoot in only my bathing suit trying to follow him. My neighbor was walking about 8 houses away and Kirby started running toward her, but a few feet away he runs back toward me, but now he is zig zagging like he is playing dodge ball as we are trying to catch him. I was so pizzed at the DH because I had told him not to put him down without the leash, I swear something having a dog is so stressful, LOL my heart is pumping just by typing this story. Once again I am SOOOOOOO glad Maggie is safe, I bet you wanted to kiss and ring her neck at the same time!
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09-14-2012, 05:03 AM | #15 |
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| On a lighter note thankfully you were dressed
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