Lady plowing into the wall

LADY AT REST

Right after we got Lady in 2002, she started charging down the basement stairs so she could go outside.

One day, I heard feet hurrying down the stairs, a slight thump and then WHAM! I was standing near the door, so I looked. Lady had run into the wall at the bottom of the stairs at full speed. She got up slowly and shook it off.

Then she walked away as though nothing had happened. "I meant to do that," she seemed to say.

Later, I checked her head and found a bump but no blood. She'd obviously hit her least vulnerable spot.

Since then, she's gone down the steps at a more sedate speed. So she learned.

NOTE: Lady passed on Sept. 17, 2016, two weeks short of her unofficial birthday (the day we got her in 2002).

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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!