[Kirby's Dad]

Tonight when I was walking Kirby I accidentally dropped his leash, it's the retractable type and it was locked at about 6-7 feet long. It's spooked him and he took off running, and I mean he TOOK OFF, he was going full speed and FREAKING out by having this big plastic thing clunking along behind him. He was "yelping" the whole way.

So I took off behind him yelling for him to come back but of course he is much faster then me and he was going as fast he possibly could I think to get away from the scary "thing" chasing him. There is a very busy road in front of my apartments and I was afraid he was going to run right out into the road and get hit. So I was freaking out too and imagining the worst.

Well he didn't run into the street, thank goodness, he ran back to my apartment and up the stairs and was waiting by the door shaking, as I huffed and puffed my way up to him. It's nice to know that he knows where he lives and runs home when scared but this really scared the hell out me AND him.

So, when we got inside and I calmed him down I put the leash on him and left it locked and laid it on the floor so he could drag it around and get used to it and he did the same thing he tore around the apratment trying get away from it, so I took it off but I'll keep working with him to get used to it so this doesn't happen again, so the word of caution is be careful not to drop your retractable leash, it may scare other dogs too, and beleive me, these are fast little guys when they're scared and trying to get away from something.

Whew!