It must have been some kind of smell of a wild animal of some kind. I was walking Rickles and in the far, far off distance there was a very faint bark and Rickles took off and practically drug me the rest of the way. I need both my knees replaced (going in November to have first one done) so you can imagine how I was trying to run behind him. It even got me spooked and I got scared which only made him more afraid and run even faster. I was so glad no one was around because we must have looked crazy with this look of panic on both our faces going 90 to nothing down the sidewalk and me making a jerky kind of hop because my knees can't work that fast. He has never done that sense and we have heard dogs barking in the distance many times. I can't imagine what made that time so different. I now can laugh about how funny we must have looked but at that moment believe me it wasn't funny. |