A really short walk with Lady

LADY'S GETTING SKITTISH IN HER OLD AGE. (FILE PHOTO)

Lady and I didn't go to the dog park Sunday, so I thought we might take a short walk in the neighborhood after dark.  We'd just left the car port when Lady turned around. I tried to pull her down the driveway, and she went a few feet with me.

But then she heard something around the house — it sounded like the gutter cracking above the front door — and she headed back again.

She's done it before. There was a doe (a deer, a female deer) in our front yard the other day, and she may have smelled it or a relative. Or several relatives.

Anyway, we didn't take a walk. She's lying at my feet as I write this.

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Other entries from The Dog Blog

• Katie cried

• Growl and pull

• ... said the spider to ...

• The Dog Diary (2015)

• The Dog Diary (2014)

• 13-plus years with my dog Lady

• OOH! OOH! The stereophonic 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

• Good Samaritan

• The PRESS cap and my friend Mike

• Watching TV

• No luck with Billy Sims

• Wipeout at Death Valley

• Days with rainbows

• A desperate writer working in the dark

• Yer outta there!