Better Than Crabs

This is somewhat a house update but more of a dog update at the new house.

We’ve all seen the “magnificent” or the “marvellous” or the “amazing” magicians being tied up in knots/chains etc and performing fantastic escapes from these predicaments. Domino does not fit this category. Since he first came to my old house he was able to run free in the fully fenced in back yard and was only put on a chain a handful of times when yardwork needed to get done (he has a habit of barking/biting rakes and shovels and other yard tools). At the new house our backyard is not fenced yet and is quite the mess so we are currently chaining Domino up out front as we thought it’d be the easiest solution but as it turns out we’re wrong.

It seems that Domino isn’t really one for the chain and doesn’t understand how to free himself when he does get stuck. The first couple of times it was the simple walk around the pole and not being able to figure out to go back the way he came to set himself free. Instead he’d just sit down and start howling. This progressed into the chain getting stuck on small twigs which Dom probably chewed off the bush at the side of the house. A quick tug would free himself from this but Domino being Domino would simply sit down again when he felt a little pressure and begin his howling.

Last night was probably his best “escape attempt” however. Jes and I went out for approximately an hour to return some house things we didn’t need and buy a house thing we did need all the while assuming Domino would be stuck somehow somewhere by the time we got back. Sure enough he was. As we pulled onto the street and got closer to the house we could see him in the bush to the side of our house. He wasn’t sort of in the bush he was dead centre in the middle stuck as stuck could be. How long he was like this I have no clue but it was a funny sight to see driving up.

This morning when Jes left she put Domino on his chain out front and by the time I made it out front (approximately 20 minutes later) Domino was stuck already. I decided to reposition his chain to the other side of the house where I think there’s less “sticky situations” for him to get into but then I forgot to move the “poop bucket” and he tore into that before Jes made it home for lunch.

Ahh the lovable little things.

So if anyone just happens to be driving by the new place and see a basset hound looking stuck please pull over and free him up, I’m sure he’d appreciate it greatly. Which raises the question, why haven’t neighbours walking by tried freeing him when it is quite clear he’s all wrapped up with nowhere to go?

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