[Rosie's Momma]

The strangest thing happened today …….. I was at my local WalMart. As usual, when I went into the store, I put Rosie into her crate in the back of the Van with the blacked out windows – I think it safer to keep her there while shopping than just loose in the vehicle for anyone to look in the windows and see her – it's too easy these days for people to open locked vehicles and steal dogs etc.

Anyway, when I came out of the store I opened the rear hatch and got Rosie out of the crate. My son, who was with me, went to the front and got his Labradoodle out of the front seat (he’d wiggled through the dog blocker we have in the back of the van ….. LoL !!!!) to bring him around to put him back into the back of the van.

A lady came up to me ohhhhing and awwwing over Rosie, reached her hands out to Rosie as if to take her out of my arms to pet her. I just had a real uncomfortable feeling so I looped my fingers around her harness and just held her to me – the lady kept ohhhhhing and awwwwwing all the while I had the feeling that she was wanting to hold Rosie, as she kept putting her hands around Rosie and pulling her, as if to take her out of my arms, but I wasn’t going to go there so held on tight. Then my son brought his dog around to the back of the van and she looked at him and said ……. ‘oh, you’re cute too’ but then immediately turned her attention back to Rosie.

As I said I just had a bad feeling about the whole scenario and really thought that the lady was actually trying to get Rosie into her hands and maybe claim her to be hers – I’ve heard of this happening before ....... this lady was just too *gushy* over Rosie.

I smiled sweetly at the lady, said, yes, we love her very much, backed away and put Rosie into her carry bag on the front console and got into the Van.

There was just something about the whole scene that gave me the creeps!