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November 24, 2004

Suicidal Pets

Lupe is back in action, even if I don't want him to be. We've been trying to confine him even though we gave up this idea back in 1994 after we'd had him for a year and he continued to injure himself escaping from our yard. The fence kept getting higher and higher and you guessed it, uglier and uglier. After 4 layers of fencing and many dog wounds we eventually just left the gate open. We figured out why he had been in the pound in the first place.

For the last 12 years Lupe has been The Neighborhood Dog. Really he's more like a cat. He takes himself on walks. He has a route of neighbors to visit and knows who on the block has treats. He used to walk himself up to Andy's parent's house, swim in the lake then walk back home to our pad, happy as a wet dog. Sometimes we'd get calls from the liquor store miles and miles away for us to come pick him up. Twelve years later he doesn't stray so far.

When I hit him with my car it was pretty amazing it was the first time he has been hit. I'm actually glad it was I that hit him rather than a stranger or a neighbor just so no one else would have to feel badly about it too.

Friday night Andy and I went to the Art with Heart auction. We took all precautions to keep Lupe inside. We baracaded the dog door from the front and the back, installed a gate to the back porch and saftey gates in our house so he wouldn't attempt the stairs. Guess who was waiting by the road for us when we came home? Lupe. He escaped via a steep hill down the side of our house. All this with several broken ribs. We've had reports from neighbors that he's back to his routine, all though his route is now even shorter.

Yes, our pets are suicidal. Jack, our cat has a herniated diaphram and is not so quick on his paws either. He seems to linger in the road just a little too long tempting fate. Damn, our pets have one hundred lives.

Posted by jana at November 24, 2004 10:05 AM

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