Dog Games

For as long as I can remember, our family dogs would run away and not come back until they were darn well ready to. First there would be some (major!) humiliation as we'd follow them hither and there calling (begging) them to come to us. Not only would they run, but they would stop and sniff around until we would be almost within an arms length and then they'd run again. Great fun they had, at our expense.

Finally, when the dog was very thirsty or maybe a bit tired, it would let us catch it. Not one time did it come to us when we'd call. And it didn't jump into the open car door as we'd drive along behind it either. It would pretend to be engrossed in some smell in the grass and would let us "sneak up" and grab it's collar.

At this point we would feel elation that we had CAPTURED the dog and were the triumphant ones!