Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Committed Casanova


com·mit 

v. com·mit·tedcom·mit·tingcom·mits
v.tr.
1. To place officially in confinement or custody, as in a mental health facility.

v.intr.
To pledge or obligate one's own self: felt that he was too young to commit fully to marriage.





Agility class today had to be modified for Porter due to his extracurricular activities yesterday. I first noticed something was wrong yesterday when I spotted blood droplets on the ground. Then this morning, Porter tried to avoid sitting for his breakfast. Once at class he was hobbling while walking over the woodchips and just didn't have the spring in his step he normally has.

In class we dropped the bars and I shortened the sequences the rest of the class was doing. We skipped the dogwalk and the weaves and mostly let Porter relax in his crate after just a few small exercises.

Why did he need these modifications? Yesterday he spend the better half of an hour trying to mount and hump my sister's neutered tripod Golden Retriever. Porter didn't care if Beakers was flat on the ground, he was fully committed to giving it the old college try. The ground was rough which abraded his pad, either when he was in the throes of making a good impression or when he was leashed but tying with all his might to get to Beakers. I'm hoping that's all that is wrong and he didn't pull a muscle in his exuberance.

Intact teenage males are fun!

1 comment:

Juniper said...

Hahahaha!

Although maybe I shouldn't laugh -- I'm planning on either getting Chimera a vasectomy or leaving him fully intact, so I'll be living with a hormonally-intact teenager pretty soon!