03/10/2005: "Maybe If I Play Dead - This Predator Will Go Away???"
mood: oooooo---frustrated again.
Maybe If I Play Dead - This Predator Will Go Away???
I read in a book somewhere, (probably one of my Chow Men magazines), that if you're being attacked, you should play dead and the attacker will get confused and go away. Wonder if this will work?
Almost everynight at our house, things go the same darn way. The Queen, (or so she thinks), rises like a phoenix from her swooning sofa in time for the Before Dinner walk. In the Winter, this can be a big production here. No one can ever find the Queen's booties, her coat, her septer, her crown and her many other acoutrements of outer wear. She hides them during the day, then forgets where she puts them. Human goes into a fit over that sometimes.
We finally make it out the door, onto the beach. I love the beach. I can run for 100 miles in any direction. It's great.
As you can see, the Queen is NOBODY without her boots. What a prissy pei! She's doing what's called the "Pei-Step".......
Oh NO! Here comes that crazy dog from next door! This is Cartouche (Cartridge in English). Cartouche is a young retriever. She's even crazier than that shar-pei. Hard to believe but true.
Says MeiMei: "Cartouche! Get Lost! Go get your own chow to chew on. This one's mine! and I'm not sharing!"
Human Note: Above and Below - MeiMei now automatically puts her self between Merlin and any other on-coming dog. She does this in a very aggressive way, brings the dog down and chases it away. This is a very new behaviour we have noticed. After the threat is resolved, she will run back to Merlin, and jump in his face to get attention (we guess)
Says MeiMei: "Ok... now where was I.... oh yes... let's bite the chow in the head!"
Says Merlin: Ok - it's time to go home now. I hope I can make it home without being mugged by a shar-pei or a crazy retriever!
Maybe if I play dead, it will go away?