Saturday, December 18, 2010

Going Walkabout

For unknown reasons, Otty and Leda have started wandering straight down the driveway and taking a little stroll to the village. It's kind of strange only because their usual route to run away involves going up back to scavenge for delicious rotting deer carcasses. But now they seem to want to mingle freely with the civilized people. Maybe they want to get coffee and a cookie at the market instead of tainted meat?

ANYWAY.

They have done this twice in the last few days. The first time, I didn't even know they were gone until an acquaintance of the MiL's pulled up in front of the house and let the two dogs out of her car. She had found them nearly at the market and, knowing whose dogs they were because she actually bought Leda's brother from the MiL, she loaded them in her car and brought them home.

Yesterday we got a call from a lady in the village to tell us the dogs were frolicking on her front lawn. The MiL went to retrieve them.

It's a little embarrassing to get calls like this (or visits from people delivering your dogs), but I have to say that one of the benefits of a small community where everyone knows everyone is that everyone also knows the collies. So they're never really lost, just temporarily misplaced until a neighbor calls to report their whereabouts.

It takes a village to keep track of errant collies.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

The other day our cocker spaniel Rowdy took himself for his walk--the first and last time so far. He saw his leash in his daddy's hand, but when his daddy turned back into the house for a moment, Rowdy just began his walk, following his usual route, never worrying that he was on his own. Dogs seem to make strange decisions.

jean said...

On the up side, they are friendly.

Anonymous said...

Maybe they have cabin fever and NEED to go to town to get something ,anything to get out of the house. :)
Since our dogs have been getting daily really long walks on our place and the past few days have been icy and hard/scary to get out on they have been walking themselves , too. Maybe it is the season. Beth

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Haley said...

Maybe they are trying to go to town to buy your Christmas present, but keep being thwarted by the townspeople who return them before they can finish their shopping...

Just Me said...

I love that about small communities. Where I live now is larger than I'd like. I'm a "live on the outskirts (or a few miles out of) of a small town" kind of girl. But I don't live in such a place for now. Blah.