Through the Looking Glass
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Through the Looking Glass
It was bound to happen, and today it did. Lily jumped out the car window. It was stationary, thank God! We had just pulled into my mom's yard, when Lily spotted The Empress Kitsy Wu, sunning herself on the walkway. After first checking her window opening for size, Lily jumped from the back passenger side seat, to the armrest and out the open front passenger window in the blink of an eye. I am not even certain she touched the seat beneath her.
Fortunately, I had her leash around my wrist, which I had grabbed as we pulled in...just in case. Usually Lily only gets to smell her foe, and today, a visual! When she first jumped out, my instinct was to reel her back in, but that would have entailed Lily hanging from, then slipping out her whole harness. Instead I let her to the ground, where she continued to imitate the Tasmanian Devil on steroids. Kitsy went up a tree, and Haley finally came out to the car and got Lily back in. I have no doubt Lily would dispatch Kitsy, given half a chance.
Fortunately, I had her leash around my wrist, which I had grabbed as we pulled in...just in case. Usually Lily only gets to smell her foe, and today, a visual! When she first jumped out, my instinct was to reel her back in, but that would have entailed Lily hanging from, then slipping out her whole harness. Instead I let her to the ground, where she continued to imitate the Tasmanian Devil on steroids. Kitsy went up a tree, and Haley finally came out to the car and got Lily back in. I have no doubt Lily would dispatch Kitsy, given half a chance.
Re: Through the Looking Glass
What a relief to read the car was stationary 
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IliamnasQuest
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Re: Through the Looking Glass
I'm glad the car was stopped, too! Yikes!
I remember once when Trick (GSD) was just a couple years old. I was down in Montana, considering a move to that area, and had gone out to a place to put a deposit on a rental. The landlord lived in a house and had dozens of rabbits running around loose. I drove up and Trick BAILED out the window and was on a dead run for whatever rabbit was closest. I yanked the door open and hit the ground running, calling her (what a useless thing to do) and trying to catch up desperately before she tasted one of my potential landlord's bunnies. Luckily she was more fascinated by the running than the actual catching, and she just raced around chasing bunnies under cars and into the bushes. She caught up with a couple of them and just let them go by her - didn't even try to bite them.
The landlord laughed about it, luckily. I was very apologetic. This was my "perfect" girl who never did anything wrong! *LOL* Kylee, the chow, stayed in the van and just barked frantically at the rabbits.
I'm glad I live in an area where it's not that hot, so I don't have to have the windows down that much. I often drive with the driver's side window down but the others are usually up. I could see Khana leaping out to go visit an animal or even a person. Tazer is always in a kennel or tethered in the van (wild child) and the other two are so old that I don't think they could make it out of a window.
Melanie and the gang in Alaska
I remember once when Trick (GSD) was just a couple years old. I was down in Montana, considering a move to that area, and had gone out to a place to put a deposit on a rental. The landlord lived in a house and had dozens of rabbits running around loose. I drove up and Trick BAILED out the window and was on a dead run for whatever rabbit was closest. I yanked the door open and hit the ground running, calling her (what a useless thing to do) and trying to catch up desperately before she tasted one of my potential landlord's bunnies. Luckily she was more fascinated by the running than the actual catching, and she just raced around chasing bunnies under cars and into the bushes. She caught up with a couple of them and just let them go by her - didn't even try to bite them.
The landlord laughed about it, luckily. I was very apologetic. This was my "perfect" girl who never did anything wrong! *LOL* Kylee, the chow, stayed in the van and just barked frantically at the rabbits.
I'm glad I live in an area where it's not that hot, so I don't have to have the windows down that much. I often drive with the driver's side window down but the others are usually up. I could see Khana leaping out to go visit an animal or even a person. Tazer is always in a kennel or tethered in the van (wild child) and the other two are so old that I don't think they could make it out of a window.
Melanie and the gang in Alaska