Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Insolence and Aggravation

The other day at Frys (It's a local grocery store) I was in the store practicing heeling and turns with my human. I was doing great, so well in fact that my human parked the scooter and got up to walk around with me. We zigged and zagged around isles, walked part people shopping carts and the delectable smell of the deli area.

Towards the end of our little session my human stopped by the pharmacy for some allergy medication. The poor gal is suffering something terrible this fall. She's all stuffed up at night and just can't breathe, let alone sleep.

On the way to the pharmacy some guy started calling to me. "Hey there puppy, hi puppy" in a nice almost baby talk tone. I turned to look at him briefly as we walked past. My human ignored him entirely. Then he boomed out, rather loudly; "Can I pet your dog?" To that my human simply said; "No I'm sorry she's working" without even breaking a stride.

Obviously he wasn't going to take no for an answer. As my human was talking to the pharmacy people and paying for her pills I kept hearing him talking and this squeaky toy noise. Squeaky toys are a weakness of mine. I admit that freely. So naturally I began to stare at him. As my human started to walk away from the counter I was transfixed and distracted by the alluring noise.

My human stopped and followed my gaze back to that bothersome man. He was laughing as my human continually tried to gather my attention to no avail. Finally she looked up at him in disgust and he shouted out from where we was standing nearly 50 feet away; "See I told you he wanted me to pet him." and continued to laugh. Her response was simply; "That or she wants to bite you". This wasn't one of her best comebacks but fighting with me was proving to be quite a strain on her tiny frame. Lets face it, when I'm not attached to the scooter, if I want to go somewhere there is no way she can physically stop me.

So the man continued to make the squeaky noise, I continued to watch him, my human dragged me down the isle to the parked scooter and the man watched and laughed the whole time. In all honesty my human should have called the police. Interfering with a service animal is a crime here in AZ and she could have pressed charges. However my human is a sweet and very gentle lady so we just went back to the scooter and want straight home.

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