A Walk Not Wasted.

[sceadugenga]

A walk not wasted.

Most of us have heard the tired old joke about a round of golf being a good walk wasted, but I’ve believed for a long time that a dog can make a good walk better.

Last week I posted in the Chiang Rai section about my triumphant ascent of the Khun Kon waterfall, near where I live, but all the time on the trip I was thinking….I should have brought the dog, I should have brought the dog.

So today I rounded up one of my wife’s nephews as a driver and we headed off. The dog’s been in the car before and knows it always leads to good things, (The vet comes to us to give him his yearly shots), so I let the lad drive while I held the excited pooch. I wound the window down a so he could have some fresh air and he soon quieted down and looked out at the passing countryside.

The ten kms passed quickly and after ascertaining there were no other dogs around I let him run. He doesn’t get to run off the lead much, the village dogs consider him a prime target and he’s too brave to run from them and too small to fight more than one at a time.

We passed through the barrier that kept the cars back and he ran ahead but never too far, turning back regularly to make sure we were still behind him. I had decided not to go all the way to the top this time (I’m saving that for my new camera) just about halfway and we all enjoyed the magnificent rainforest scenery as we climbed steadily upwards. Huge ficus trees loomed over head and bamboo stands competed for space.

When we turned back he got a lot braver, running further ahead and sometimes disappearing around the corner. Bamboo bridges crossed the fast running river in several places and finally he decided to scorn such pedestrian ways and took to the rocks that lined the waterway jumping from one to the other to get to the other side. At the last stepping stone he slipped and plunged into the torrent, disappearing briefly then a black nose and long flapping ears emerged and seal-like he arrived at the opposite bank.

In disgrace he went back on the lead for the last hundred metres and suffered the attentions of the towel I’d brought specifically for this type of mishap. I wanted to run him around the large lawn area to dry him out a bit more but he had seen the car and wasn’t risking going anywhere incase it went without him.

A good day out for all!!

[elfe]

nice report

should be an every day thing thoug for happy dog owners and dogs

[sceadugenga]

nice report

should be an every day thing thoug for happy dog owners and dogs

Thanks elfe, it's certainly going to be a regular thing, I need to lose a lot of weight.

He gets two walks a day around the village but the evening one usually culminates in a couple of bottles of Leo at my sister in law's shop which kinda defeats the purpose for me.

[November Rain]

Nice

[Mossfinn]

On a similar vein but quite different, I suppose, I took my two Chihuahua's on a two hour walk round a local Nature Reserve last week-end, everybody laughed when I told them they went on such a long walk.

But they loved it and it seemed to calm them down encountering so many other dogs, they normally just go round the local park and they go mad when they see other people or Dogs.

The reason why it is different is, unfortunately in was Shotover Park in Oxford and not Thailand

Good Luck

Moss

[sceadugenga]

On a similar vein but quite different, I suppose, I took my two Chihuahua's on a two hour walk round a local Nature Reserve last week-end, everybody laughed when I told them they went on such a long walk.

But they loved it and it seemed to calm them down encountering so many other dogs, they normally just go round the local park and they go mad when they see other people or Dogs.

The reason why it is different is, unfortunately in was Shotover Park in Oxford and not Thailand

Good Luck

Moss

You're lucky they let them in, in Australia it's almost impossible to get dogs into a nature reserve now, irresponsible owners have let their dogs run amok and slaughter wildlife until all dogs are banned. The responsible dog owner pays once more.

I know how much you Poms love your dogs, I visited my cousin in Lytham St Annes once and there was a park down the road from his house where someone had bought a park bench and dedicated it to his pet who used to play there. Quite touching.

[sceadugenga]

On a similar vein but quite different, I suppose, I took my two Chihuahua's on a two hour walk round a local Nature Reserve last week-end, everybody laughed when I told them they went on such a long walk.

But they loved it and it seemed to calm them down encountering so many other dogs, they normally just go round the local park and they go mad when they see other people or Dogs.

The reason why it is different is, unfortunately in was Shotover Park in Oxford and not Thailand

Good Luck

Moss

You're lucky they let them in, in Australia it's almost impossible to get dogs into a nature reserve now, irresponsible owners have let their dogs run amok and slaughter wildlife until all dogs are banned. The responsible dog owner pays once more.

I know how much you Poms love your dogs, I visited my cousin in Lytham St Annes once and there was a park down the road from his house where someone had bought a park bench and dedicated it to his pet who used to play there. Quite touching.

Sh*t, I just saw you're from Killywhatnot, a thousand apologies for calling you a Pom.

[Mossfinn]

On a similar vein but quite different, I suppose, I took my two Chihuahua's on a two hour walk round a local Nature Reserve last week-end, everybody laughed when I told them they went on such a long walk.

But they loved it and it seemed to calm them down encountering so many other dogs, they normally just go round the local park and they go mad when they see other people or Dogs.

The reason why it is different is, unfortunately in was Shotover Park in Oxford and not Thailand

Good Luck

Moss

You're lucky they let them in, in Australia it's almost impossible to get dogs into a nature reserve now, irresponsible owners have let their dogs run amok and slaughter wildlife until all dogs are banned. The responsible dog owner pays once more.

I know how much you Poms love your dogs, I visited my cousin in Lytham St Annes once and there was a park down the road from his house where someone had bought a park bench and dedicated it to his pet who used to play there. Quite touching.

Sh*t, I just saw you're from Killywhatnot, a thousand apologies for calling you a Pom.

I have been called a lot worse!!

I guess you could it a large park with all manner of wildlife but on reflection I would suggest that calling it a Nature Reserve would be stretching it a bit, but it is certainly protected to a certain extent.

Good Luck

Moss