The Hot Spring - A Big Dog Short Story
The horse barreling down the wooden overpass didn't alter my best friend Nikita's determination. Nikita pulled and huffed as we passed the galloping horse, and the old bridge shook and swayed beneath our feet.
Nikita is an eighty-pound, Boxer-mix, rescue dog!
It was a brisk autumn day, so she was wearing her favorite large dog clothes. She couldn't wait to get to the hot springs.
"Nikita! Heel, " I said. But this old dog didn't care for new tricks. She'd been walking me for ten years now. As I wondered why she never learned to heel, she probably wondered why I never learned to stop barking!
When we came close to the water I took off Nikita's large dog hoodie and hung her clothes on a tree branch. I unleashed her and the 1980's slow-motion music should have started playing, because she took off lightning fast and it all got trapped in time: her ears perked straight up, her tongue flapped and sloshed, her eyes smiled wider than her mouth, her fangs glistened in the sun, her fur naked without her large dog clothes... and then she was flying.
She leaped off the end of the bridge and sailed 25 feet over the crystal clear hot spring. The glassy water mirrored her flight and as she met her reflection water blasted into the air and she disappeared below its surface. She popped up and swam to the shore as the 1980's music stopped in my head. I dried her off and put her large dog clothes back on. She always seemed happier after that dunk. Sometimes I wonder if it was really her that came back, or the glassy reflection from the other side.
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I need to find a hoodie for my dog. Do you know of any companies that specialize in clothes for large breed deep chested dogs? All of the clothes I find at the pet stores are too small for her. She is only 50 pounds, but every where I have looked only makes clothes for yorkie - beagle sized dogs. Can you help me?
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Do you think Doggy Couture is crazy? [Doggy Couture is part of Juicy Couture]?
I think so. Because, in the doggy couture section, they sell dog nail polish & perfume?
Also, have you seen the $95.00 CASHMERE DOG HOODIE? [http://www.juicycouture.com/store/catalog/prod.jhtml?itemId=prod3700013&parentId=cat134&masterId=cat000000&cmCat=cat000000cat134&index=25&tid=P9
For one:
1. The dog can accidently choke on the pom poms
2. There are pockets, BUT HOW CAN THE DOG PUT THEIR PAWNS IN IT?
3. The heart & chain golden charm will be swallowed
I mean, WHAT THE HECK?? Sure it's cute, but indeed dangerous.
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Do you agree that Doggy Couture creators are crazy?
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