Road Trip!

I could hear the dogs barking at something in the barn Monday morning around 4 am and at first I thought.. well I thought really bad things! Then all of a sudden I was thinking that maybe a skunk got in the barn and the dogs have got it cornered. Now normally the only bad thing about that is the smell that usually comes with skunks. But I know that Reno was due for her rabies shot and I started to panic what if it was really a skunk,  and if was sick… Well, you can about imagine how much sleep (or lack of sleep) I got after 4:00. So today I have an appointment for Reno to get her shots. My plan was to pick her up on my lunch hour and road trip it to the vet and then pick her up after work. While she was there, she was going to catch up on her shots and then get a shampoo and a style.

It was now my lunch hour and I make a mad dash home and first things first. Kaiser has chewed off Reno’s her collar and so now it’s junk Yea, no surprise here! It seems like anything he sees, he can destroy in about 5 minutes. Since I needed a collar to hook the lease on, I decided to use his on her. I thought that this was a good plan. Well I grabbed the lease from the house and down to the barn I go. When I opened the door Reno saw that I had the lease in my hand and she knew right away that someone was going somewhere and she started to get scared. She got really scared to be honest. She makes this funny clicking noise with her teeth like they are literally chattering. She then lays on the ground and won’t make eye contact. Well that’s all good, but we were going to go and that was that! I got Kaiser’s collar off by literally holding him down and then it went on her. OK, so far so good. Then the lease went on and we were heading down the road in the truck to the vet’s office. She was so good when I dropped her off and I was so proud of her. Sometimes when our dogs get scared, well let’s say it get a little messy in their office. Now fast forward to after work. I pull up in front of the office and get out with my lease. They knew the time that I was coming back and was going to have Reno ready. When I step out of the truck another car pulls up beside me and out steps this lady who looks pretty friendly. I say Hi and we both head into the office. Now out comes Reno all clean and happy when all of a sudden this lady who walked in with me went over to Reno and grabbed her face and said how beautiful ‘he’ looked and was ‘he’ happy to see her? She kept telling Reno that she just loved her and and then she was ready to take her home. OK, now this is getting a little weird. I gave the ‘I think this lady is kind of freaky’ look to the vet and she just kind of shrugged her shoulder. Finally I told the lady that this was my dog and she looked at me and then she looked at the dog and then.. her face turned RED! All of a sudden out of the corner of the room come a running another collie, but a male instead. Reno was just basking in all the petting she was getting and was sitting so nice and calm. But this other dog. Holy Cow! This other dog couldn’t keep his feet on the ground. He came a running around the corner and after he literally slid up to her, he started to jump. I swear all four feet were off the ground at once. Now I was thinking that Kaiser was naughty but I’m rethinking that statement after seeing her dog! She asked the vet how she should be disciplining her dog and the vet told her just keep doing what she was doing. Now I’m not an expert, but I’m thinking to myself that maybe she should try something else!  I think both Reno and I had the same expression on our faces when we walked out of the office this afternoon after seeing how excited that dog was. But soon we were in the truck and headed back to the farm. I snapped a quick picture of Reno when we got home just hanging out in the truck. She looks pretty sassy with her scarf on and all and I think she knows it!!