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Cute Chappy story for you. You know how I’ve told you how much he likes our mail carrier, Sandi? And how she’ll stop her truck to say hello whenever she sees us out for a walk? Well, at lunchtime, we were walking along, about two houses away from home, when I heard her truck coming up behind us. That’s fine, I figured, she’ll deliver mail to those few houses on the way, and she’d catch up to us by the time we get home.
Chappy, though, heard her coming, and started watching back over his shoulder, while I kept saying, “Come on, keep going straight, come ON, Chappy.” All while I tried to keep making forward progress toward home … then, I glanced down, and he was completely backwards. This tail was facing the direction we were walking, and his nose was firmly pointed toward the mail truck. Backwards! I had no idea he could walk backward so well!
Well, Sandi saw all of this–and by this time, we’re not moving at all. Chappy can exert a LOT of leverage when he leans against his collar, you know. Besides, I’m bent over laughing, because it’s just so darn funny. So, by this time, she’s just skipped ahead a few houses so that she can say hello to Chappy and put him out of his misery, and she’s laughing almost as much as we are. She will never, ever have any doubts about how much Chappy truly likes her!
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too funny! Does she have “cookies” for him? My mom just retired after almost 30 years delivering and she knew all the dogs well, never bit once! She did have to be sure to close her car door though at one particular home that would get packages often. The dog would climb into her car and eat her sandwich if she didn’t…dog loved hummus!
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Gasp! Did you sell your Lendrum?!
My boys likeour mail carrier too. He’s a Vietnam vet and lost a leg. He has one of those really cool curvy metal legs and Max likes to lick it! He says Max is the only dog on his route who isn’t afraid of his leg! Leave it to my boy to love everybody. Yep, he’s the scary pit bull…
Chappy is too cute. Hive him a scritch from me!
That should have read Give him a scritch from me.
Did you finally sell the Lendrum?
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I had no idea dogs could walk backwards!
Now I’m trying to remember if I’ve ever seen Libby walk backwards. I think I have, but usually it’s forced. So where did the wheel go?
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