Pee Walk

A Pee walk?

Yes, Cooper gets to go on daily pee walks. This is the time when we have a morning or an afternoon free and I hook her up to her leash and we go for a walk so she can mark and remark her territory. Now, she is very good about this. There is a path that goes from our front door to a mailbox on the side of the road. Bison and other animals cross the path (I know this because she has all but vibrated sniffing their scent and they leave scat) so she has to reestablish her territory. And then we follow the road, head to the entrance station, say hi to people who are working and then we head back home.

That is, this is how it typically is.

Aside from yesterday that is. Cooper and I went for a slightly different pee walk the other day. We went down to the Shoshone River and got wet. I had on my work boots which are water proof so I didn't get as wet. Now, as you might have guess Coops is built slightly lower to the ground than I am an she has the advantage of having four paws to my two feet. This does not make for a good combination when she is still on leash and wants to run.

Over rocks.

Of course she goes bounding over rocks and grass while I am hurrying to keep up. And yes, you guessed it. I wouldn't say I was running but my foot got caught on a rock and I had a brilliant fall. I scratched my leg and it still hurts but thankfully I had taken the precaution of wearing a pair of jeans so they now have a nice stain of the local flora. And I missed hitting my head on a giant rock by mere inches. I scraped my wrists a bit. Better my wrists than my head I think.

And what did my faithful and trusty canine do? Simple, she looked back at me and looked at me wondering why I was resting.

So I got up, brushed myself off and then we had to get back up the bank to the street. Now, of course we could have taken the trail that we had taken on our way down, but no, that would have been too easy. And I think Coops had taken us beyond it. So we go up the hard way. At first we tried to go up the bank made mostly of dirt and flora. That didn't work. Nor was the half-hearted attempt to go up loose rocks. But a little further along I found something a little more stable. I had to grab Coops by her harness and tug her up onto the bank and from there we were able to hit the street, go to the entrance station, check some mail and then go home.

I even worked on the book some.

And today Coops whined while I made use of the gym upstairs.

But people need the computer so I think that this is gonna be it for now. I might, next time I head into town, go to Billings, MT instead. I hear the have a petsmart or maybe a petco. And it's only a 2 hour drive (and as Ryan the LE said the other day, it's all relative in the mts.)

As ever, I love you all.
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