A Walk with Snowy

My husband and I both love dogs. However, I have a little problem, which is, I don't dare to touch the dog.

I had many scary encounters with BIG DOGS when I was young. My legs would turn jelly when I saw them. They liked to sniff or lick my kneelcap when I was sitting down / standing up. Or they would always like to follow me.

But of course not all dogs are BIG and SCARY, there are exceptions. Ta darn! This little white fur ball! She belongs to my cousin.

SNOWY!

Recently my husband and I strolled with her near our neighborhood. She must wear her doggy clothes or else won't leave the house! : )

We decided to walk down the staircase. However, something happened ...



Snowy is afraid of height! She just rested on the staircase and didn't want to walk! So my husband had to carry her and took a lift eventually.


Time for a walk, fur ball ! She's so excited until she ran (but perhaps she's so tiny and my husband's so tall. His 1 step equals to her 10steps, may be!):) Look at the sky. It's still bright.


But just barely 5 - 10mins walk, the sky turned dark and Snowy paused again. She needed to rest on the seat. :)

"Hey... I'm very tired le..."



Time to drag the little fur ball to the park. But we needed to climb a flight of stairs whereby Snowy paused again...


Finally, the little white fur ball managed to climb a series of stairs and almost "rolled" down another when we were walking down.


SEE! Look at the sky now! It's dark! And is actually just a 10mins-walk away from my block and eventually became closed to a 30-mins walk for Snowy. : )
"Finally reached the park!tired...tired.."

After a 10mins- run (for Snowy), she needed to rest again and her bell nearly came out.
"I want to sleep..."

Perhaps Snowy didn't do a proper stretching prior to the "run"... So she had to do a post - stretching when she reached back her home.

S. T. R. E. T. C. H!!!!!!

After close to 1-hour-walk with Snowy, we discovered that walking with Snowy is like walking with a little 2 year-old-child. We have to slow down because she can't catch up with us. When we were walking with her, we have to make sure she didn't sniff the lamp post for too long for fearing that she liked other dogs' smells or worst which is wanted to pee or poopoo there or wanted to find out who the dog is (she has mensus now!)! When Snowy pants, we once again need to pause and check if she is ok and fear that the walk becomes too tiring for this 6months-old-fur ball.

It makes me realise if I've paused for my students when they need help. When Snowy needs to rest, she will pant and lie flat on the floor. Then my husband will massage her gently on her back. It's her way of showing "I'm tired and need rest."

But how about my students? If you don't say anything, I really don't know what you are thinking. Tell me directly, ok?

Meanwhile, it's time for us to walk Snowy again. : )