pet connection

Here’s a story that I’m sure many of us can relate to. It’s about losing your car. Not having it stolen, which of course is out of your control, but losing it. As in, not recalling here you left it.

Columnist Peter Kenter, of the Canwest News Service, reveals his embarrassing story about recently losing his car in a strange neighborhood where he had parked to attend a festival.

And while we can all relate to the part about losing our rides, I doubt many of us have had to do so carrying a 10-year old bull terrier over our shoulders.

Peter writes on the Auto Canada website:

In the hour that had elapsed, every parking spot in the subdivision had been taken and, as night fell, I couldn’t even make out by eye where the car was located. I could have probably made a quick tour of the subdivision by foot, but my 10-year-old bull terrier couldn’t walk another step. And so I had to carry him. On my back.

Plodding slowly with 35 kilograms of canine slung across my shoulder, I searched every street in the subdivision, hopelessly trying to activate the car’s horn with the keyless remote I feared was running out of batteries.

Fortunately, the story has a happy ending. Bravo to Peter for not only being a good Dog Dad, but for revealing his inner idiot to the rest of the world.

We should all be so bold!