Monday, May 18, 2009
Got Mobbed

There we were on our usual evening run. My human in her scooter. I to her left and Atlantis to her right. We trotted down this street and crossed over to that street. Up a little hill, around the corner, zig and zagging our way through the neighborhood. My human tries to keep our run interesting so we take a variety of different routs throughout the week.

This evening we went past the little park. We go pass the park at least once a week. It's kind of in the middle so it's hard to miss it actually. It's a quaint little park. A grassy field, some trees and picnic tables, a pavilion and yes a playground with swings, slides and other fun stuff. None of which we dogs are allowed to play on. Totally unfair if you ask me.

Sometimes the park is filled with families, other times it's rather empty. This time it contained a few families and quite a few of them were little kids. Now you know how totally irresistible I am to you and old alike. Apparently Atlantis has a rather strong effect on people as well. With the two of us strutting ourselves we are a force to be reckoned with as the parents of the youngsters quickly discovered.

The brood of young ones began calling out "doggie", or maybe "puppy", not really sure. They are hard to understand. Some I think just said "da!". Regardless of what was said, or meant to be said they all came a running up the little hill right for us. The parents in hot pursuit. To prevent the little humans from ending up in the street my human made a mad dash for the parks edge and pulled in to the grass and grabbed Atlantis's leash before she could pounce on a toddler.

Much to my humans surprise she exactly what I did and sat down just as the horde of tiny humans reached us and grappled on to our fur. We both had kids on our heads and bodies. The parents apologized when they finally caught up but my human assured them that it was ok as the kids giggled and petted us. Atlantis got in a few good licks but I maintained my composure and just let the little people hug me.

My human explained to the parents and the kids about service dogs. The kids tried out a few simple commands but after sitting and downing a few times I was done with letting kids tell me what to do so I just stood and let them all pet me. One of the kids gave Atlantis a water bottle which she tried to chew up until my human realized what she had and told her to give it to the parental figure.

Once the initial excitement of our presence subsided the kids went back to playing on the swings and we continued on our run.

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