February 17, 2013

  • My neighbor’s dogs have access to their back yard. On warm days, I can hear them barking at the odd and occasional stray cat, adventuresome squirrel or at me if they spot me hauling trash out to the dumpster.

    The dogs are ‘house-broken’ as the saying goes. That means that they don’t relieve their bowels or bladders inside the house. Outdoors is a different matter, especially when I take them for a long walk.

    The great outdoors becomes an adventure, as well as a place to leave canine messages. These pups stop to pee on a tree stump, then a few feet along the path they find a bush, or lamp post, or a curb, or some other object that needs to be watered. I can walk three blocks and count at least ten stop ’n’ spray diversions.

    What if humans were more akin to canines. Say a man goes to a club, dances, plays pool, does a Karaoke rendition in a voice that sounds like a moose on crack, but every so often he pees on the leg of his dance companion, or the chair leg at the table where he and his companion sit, or the leg of the pool table, or the Karaoke microphone?

    So, ladies, even is the klutz you are with often acts like a dog, be grateful if he doesn’t emulate the old canine stop ‘n’ spray technique, at least in public.

    Another thing, I wonder if a dog can leave a stop ‘n’ spray message that simply ‘un-friends’ some other canine in the neighborhood?