The Days Of Our Lives

Have you ever gone through the experience of having dogs run after your car and bark loudly, causing you trauma and sometimes even loss of hearing? I had - more than a million times. Then I realised what I was doing wrong.

Being a good samaritan that I am (and a dog lover), I always used to sincerely drive around the dog standing on the middle of the road. Then that same dog would start running behind my car. It has led to a few embarassing sitautions where by habit, I halt the car and start abusing the dog. Sure, the dog would stop in its tracks but then continue its fascination with the vehicle as soon as it started again. (Just a thought - why do dogs run behind cars? It is just a way to get over the boredom - "Look Frankie, its a car; a car, I tell you!"?)

Now here comes the trick. To avoid this situation, here is what I did - instead of going around the dog, I went straight at it. A game of chicken if you will. Now the dog is all confused - "Oh dude, this is not supposed to happen!", "OMG, which one of us is the car?", and it silently moves away. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it moves away. No more dog. Try it out yourself. Its worked EVERY TIME for me.

You see the real trick is thinking from a dog's perspective - which reminds me, I need to go find a car tyre, I feel the bowels filling!

P.S.: You might notice how I've carefully left out the entire part about the dog not moving away. Lets just leave that for another day.

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