{"id":1735,"date":"2008-11-04T18:08:13","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T18:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sithean.com\/dawgdogs\/?p=1735"},"modified":"2008-11-04T18:08:13","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T18:08:13","slug":"dooley-drives-the-volvo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sithean.com\/dawgdogs\/dooley-drives-the-volvo\/","title":{"rendered":"Dooley Drives the Volvo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I thought I would surprise Helen.
\nWe went for a bit of ball throwing which I love.
\nI particularly love to catch the ball before Rocco and then run off with it.
\nThis infuriates him and is worth every extra minute of me running
\nreally fast with Rocco in hot pursuit.
\nI have been watching the flyball on TV and have taken a keen interest in this sport, not in the way
\nthat men become ridiculous over football and completely obsessed by this pointless game, I know that I could be really very good at fly ball.
\nThe ball interests me so much that I have completely forgotten that I used to like to chase cyclists and runners.
\nI drop to the ground, wait for the ball and off I go at super fast pace.
\nSometimes Helen tries to trick me by pretending to throw it one way and then another,
\nI’m getting wise to this trick.
\nHelen says that now I have the job of chasing the ball I have given up some of my other less popular jobs.
\nI’m much better when meeting other dogs and people out now and pay them no attention at all unless of course it is a pretty lady and then I fluff up my tail and run really fast so she can see how fit I am.
\nNo dates as of yet but I live in hope.<\/p>\n

Anyway back to me driving the Volvo.
\nAfter our walk we went for a drive in the car and just to show how good I am I lay down in the foot well and had a snooze.
\nWe then went to meet Tom at Companion Care who has kindly offered to help the rescue with the neutering scheme and Helen took us in with her and I sat quietly in the waiting room.
\nThis is also an improvement for me, I even licked Tom’s hand and when a noise
\nstartled me instead of reverting back to my old habit of nipping someone
\nI looked at Helen who told me to be still and I was!!
\nWhich is a BIG step forward for me.
\nAfter our visit we went back to the car and I had another snooze.
\nOn the way home we stopped at the Rec again and had more ball throwing,
\nthen we were bundled back into the car and went to the shops.
\nHelen had to pop into a shop to pick up some dog food and
\nI could see from her face that she was quite worried about leaving me
\nin charge of the car.
\nIn the past I would run from back to front and eat it but today much to Helen’s delight when she came back to the car I was sitting in the driving seat in a calm and grown up manner.
\nI’ve seen children doing this when their parents leave them in charge of
\nthe car but instead of hooting the horn and turning the steering wheel
\nfrom side to side I went one better and sat there like a responsible
\ndriver and ignored all distractions.
\nI am thinking of taking my driving test next so wish me luck!<\/a><\/p>\n

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Today I thought I would surprise Helen. We went for a bit of ball throwing which I love. I particularly love to catch the ball before Rocco and then run off with it. This infuriates him and is worth every extra minute of me running really fast with Rocco in hot pursuit. I have been … Continue reading “Dooley Drives the Volvo”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dooleys-diary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sithean.com\/dawgdogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sithean.com\/dawgdogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sithean.com\/dawgdogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sithean.com\/dawgdogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sithean.com\/dawgdogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sithean.com\/dawgdogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sithean.com\/dawgdogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sithean.com\/dawgdogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sithean.com\/dawgdogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}