Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for October 02, 2021

Scooter’s favorite song is Different Drum by the Stone Ponies.

At a lake swim-meet a guy tied his dog to his truck and went off to swim. The retriever chewed the leash and joined him in the race. I think the dog won!

Scooters route of choice is walking by Little Miss Millie`s house, NOT by Elsie Thumgudgeon’s house. Elsie will only turn the sprinklers on them anyways. Scooter is not stupid.

Chet’s the Emperor and Scooter’s the Empress.

Scooter knows where the bones are buried.

… and when Scooter gets off his leash … who knows what he will do?

Hardly surprising – Scooter isn’t even Chet’s dog…!

Gonna need a stronger leash…

Scooter’s going his own way.

When even Scooter has had enough.. you gotta know, Chet is one boring dude.

For some reason, Chet reminds me of Colin Robinson, the “Energy Vampire” in the very funny series “What We Do in the Shadows”. Colin would undoubtedly be pointing out some of the extremely boring bits of information about the route he intends to take, although I’m not at all sure an Energy Vampire can drain a dog of his energy. On that score, Scooter probably feels discretion is the better part of valor…

I used to walk in the foothills above Morro Bay with two cats. People asked how I got them to follow me. I explained how we took it in turns. :)

Chet simply chooses the path with interesting odors.

Chet’s kinda scary. I’d chew the leash in half too

Chet’s route doesn’t have any squirrels for Scooter to chase.

There is little that is appealing about Chet. Scooter just used him as a ruse to get out the door and escape. Chet is so used to it he won’t notice for at least an hour. An hour of pure bliss for Scooter. Garbage cans, squirrels, fire hydrants and of course Fifi, who likes to be walked by Mrs. Furbisher about this time of day.

Scooter has a good set of choppers on him.