On the run, with the collies in pursuit

I DON'T HAVE MANY PICTURES OF LADY (BACK)
RUNNING; THIS IS ONE OF THEM.

Lady was still only four or five years old, maybe less, when we took her to Collie Rescue of the Carolinas. We wanted to get Lady a collie companion, who turned out to be Katie. But that's a different story.

Lady decided to run with the collies, and she took off with a bunch of young collies chasing her. She had already been spayed, but most of her pursuers were male. Maybe almost all of the collies were male, period.

Anyway, she ran like a halfback, to and fro and here and there; she'd run straight a bit, then turn violently left or right. I wouldn't say she was fast — she never was blazing fast — but she ran well, and the others couldn't catch her.

For some reason, I was calling her Knucklehead then, and I'd yell it, and a guy there would do it, too. Lady ignored us and ran and ran and ran.

Why bring this up now? I'm being nostalgic. She ran some (very slowly) the other day at the dog park, but it was nothing like that day at Collie Rescue.

UPDATE: Lady passed on Sept. 17, 2016.

Other entries from The Dog Blog

• Katie cried

• Growl and pull

• 13-plus years with my dog Lady

• ... said the spider to ...

• The Dog Diary (2014)

• YIP! YIP! The stereo-sound huskies

• What Lady and Michael Jackson had in common

EDITOR@WORK blog entries

• You really DO need an editor

• Reminders for would-be novelists

• What I do when I'm editing

• What I charge (it's a deal) and what I edit

• Slogging through the Internet

• J-school: More eyes on your stories

• J-school: Go out and learn

• Rookie mistakes for magazine writers

Blog entries from The Auto Racing Journal

• Angel in Black: Remembering Dale Earnhardt Sr.

(a book of great stories about the Intimidator)

• Then Junior Said to Jeff...

(the book of great NASCAR stories)

• My best day as a sports writer

• Jeff Gordon's milk toast to Dale Earnhardt

• Wayne Auton: A life in racing

More blog entries by Tom Gillispie

• Resume for a writer and editor

• An editor's views on powerful writing

• Advice for be and would-be novelists

• Links to TG's stories online

• Favorite quotes

• What I do when I'm editing

Anecdotes by Tom Gillispie

• Wipeout at Death Valley

• Days with rainbows

• A desperate writer working in the dark

• Yer outta there!