[lit-ideas] Re: Dogs
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 00:52:21 -0500
>>How strangely liberating it is to talk of our
love of dogs.
A non-shaggy dog story.
Years ago, living in a different apartment, I had
an extremely smart and gentle dog named Julie. She
was a Doberman / German Shepherd mix. Julie was
rescued by a friend who worked at a charity in
Bedford-Stuyvesant. A street dog, Julie refused to
leave the alley where her mate had recently died,
and though she approached people, including my
friend, she always wandered back to the alley.
Intrigued, my friend followed her into the alley
and discovered the dead male. My friend managed to
get a cab (not so easy in B-S), put the dog in it,
and took her to Manhattan.
To make a long story short, I took care of the
dog. Julie was covered with scabies and needed a
couple years of vet treatment before she fully
regained her coat. At first she was pure street
dog, strong willed and very fast. She fought the
short leash, would jump over the dog run fence,
and sometimes stole pizza from the homeless people
living under a bridge in the park. After five
years, she was well trained.
I took her into the hall one afternoon, en route
to the dog run, pushed the elevator button ...
then remembered I had forgotten something. I
looped the leash over a utility closet knob, ran
back, got what I needed, returned in less than 30
seconds.
Julie was gone. I called her. Nothing. Ran up and
down the stairwell. Nothing.
What happened? Julie got the leash free from the
door knob. The elevator then stopped at my floor,
with a couple people inside. Julie got into the
elevator alone, much to the astonishment of the
people inside, went down to the lobby, walked with
them past the doorman, and sat outside the
building waiting for me.
After asking the doorman--he thought Julie was the
couple's dog--I rushed outside. Juli yawned and
stood up, uttered a "come on already" moan. And
off we went.
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