Our dog is a cutie, but she’s not the most street smart dog you’ve met. She’s bright in many ways, but we joke that she’s “half dopey” because, well, she does dopey things every now and then. She’s a mix of Keeshond and Shetland Sheepdog, and while both breeds are pretty smart, it seems when you mix the two, a little dopey creeps in in the offspring. So you take one of these dogs:
And mate him/her with one of these dogs:
And you get this:
See? Kind of dopey, right? I know, that’s kind of mean, but stay with me and I’ll explain. Every weekday morning we take Maya to school, but we also take the dog with us so we can do a little walking, the dog can do her “doggie business” in the bushes, and we all get some time to chat and walk. It’s a nice routine. When we’re running late, we take our car part of the way to Maya’s school and walk the rest of the way figuring that some exercise is better than none. Anyway, everyday we open up the hatch to our Scion xB (AKA “Boomer”) and the dog jumps in — like this:
But today, the dog’s dopey side completely took over and she was in “full dopey” mode. Julie went to open the hatch to the car, and even before she could find the button to release the lock, the dog jumped up and smashed her face in the door. The dog let out a “Oof,” a couple of half sneezes, and generally walked around like she was punch-drunk (which she probably was). I was convinced our dog had lost whatever street smarts she had and was now pretty much legally retarded. Julie couldn’t stop laughing as the image of the dog jumping up and smashing her face into the back of the closed hatch back played over and over in her mind. I was miffed because our xB is new and while there are a few road rash dings, it’s in really nice shape. Not anymore, though. Because of our dog’s full dopey move, the back is scratched up:
Oh sure, some of that will “buff out,” but there are some nice deep scratches on there, too. As I type this, I’m just shaking my head at what happened this morning, because 1. My dog is dopey. And 2. I just realized my wife is the target audience for America Funniest Home Videos — the pet category.
CG
April 30, 2008 at 3:00 pmPy, that’s too funny. Poor sweet Gen. She is like a robot, she is programmed to jump whether the back is open or not. My “evil” dog sends her love to
Gen.
J
April 30, 2008 at 3:06 pmI laughed even harder the time that Maya ran into the mirror at a shoe store as a toddler. She cried and was a little bit hurt, but I couldn’t stop laughing. I haven’t gone back to that store, either, because the employees were giving me serious stink eye!
I walked into the glass door at Benetton once, though, and Neva and I almost peed we were laughing so hard. So it’s something about that specific walking into things that must crack me up for some reason. 🙂
Poor Gen. You never know, though…perhaps it knocked some sense into her!
Doug
April 30, 2008 at 4:14 pmYa, my dog has destroyed a couple of screen doors thinking they were open.
Py Korry
April 30, 2008 at 4:58 pmIt was so unexpected … that’s why it was so funny — for Julie, that is. 🙂
I’m not sure if smashing her face into the back of the car will knock some sense into her, but one can hope.
Cherry
April 30, 2008 at 11:02 pmSilly Gen!
Bummer about the scratches on Boomer. At least the next set of scratches won’t hurt quite as much.
J, you can come over and watch America’s Funniest Home Videos with Eric anytime. It’s Tivo’d because it is Eric’s FAVORITE SHOW! I say I hate it, even while I’m laughing at it.
Beenzzz
May 1, 2008 at 7:43 amPoor Gen. I hope she’s ok. You have an xB? I have a silver tC. Cool! Welcome to the Scion family. 🙂
ML
May 1, 2008 at 7:44 amGen is such a sweet doggy. I met her once last year when I visited. I’m happy she’s part sheltie (my fav breed).
Sorry about your car, though 🙁 I hope she didn’t get too smashed up.
Whenever my sheltie did something goofy, she would act like she meant to do it, or that she’s too cool to acknowledge the mishap. Hahaha!
Autumn's Mom
May 1, 2008 at 9:27 amohmygosh, I wish I could have seen it. Sigh. We were away this weekend and our kids went for a hike along a hill behind the house we were staying. On the way back, one of the boys hopped the wrong fence into the wrong back yard and ran head first into the neighbors screen door. While the couple sitting right there having dinner. We were worried he’d done some damage so went to check on it. Neighbor couldn’t stop laughing. Whew!
Lalunas
May 2, 2008 at 6:16 pmOh Geni. poor baby, she did not have her coffee yet for the day and well, you know how that is.
Gina
May 5, 2008 at 12:54 pmPoor puppy! Poor car!
How do you like your Scion? My dad bought an Element not too long ago, and he loves it!