We have these marathon runners that jog all over the Medical Center, regardless of the heat, the cold, the rain, etc...CRAZY!!! but they think this is soooo good for them...but one day I am driving home at 3pm, dead of last summer (T - 96*) and there is some dude, with his little speedo on, and his glistening, dark tanned body, complete with bulging deltoids and an amazing washboard set of abs, jogging around the hospital on the sidewalk, little headband catching any droplets of sweat,....clulessly dragging a little, looked to be 5# Yorkie, down the sidewalk behind him on a 8 foot leash...totally oblivious to the poor little animals distress....I pulled into a driveway 1/2 block ahead of him and stopped, waiting for him to get to me, and I asked him if he had even looked over his shoulder to see the half dead dog he was dragging down the sidewalk behind him...he was stunned and amazed that the dog was experiencing heat exhaustion and was about to collapse. I loaded him and his half dead dog in my car and drove him to his apartment about 1/2 mile away, while he took cold water from my lunch kit, soaked a towel I had in the back seat, and held it on the dogs stomach, on pulse points under her arms and groin area, with the a/c blowing on her...he saved her, to run again, but he did wave me down about a month later, and told me thanks, it had NEVER occured to him the dog could not out run him....out perform him....he had gone to the vet immediately and they treated her and she does NOT run with him anymore! |