Saturday, March 14, 2009

Tough doggie

I love how dogs are so resilient.  I was walking Jake today (my 3-year-old Lab/Chow mix) and noticed that not much seems to phase him.  He can run into stuff, get hit by stuff, run across rocks (barefoot of course! or barepaw?) and he doesn't yelp, cry, or complain.    He's got an incredibly high threshold for pain.  Even before we went outside for the walk, I poked my head out the door to see what the weather was like and so in his anticipation to get outside (he is otherwise an "indoor" dog) he tried to run out the door and instead ran his head square into the edge of the cracked-open door.  This act would have caused a lesser species - like humans - to reel in pain and yell things like "Fuck!" and "Shit that hurt!".  Not Jake... he took it in stride, backed up, and realigned himself to poke his tiny little head out the crack of the very door I was in the process of closing.  He didn't knock his noggin a second time, but it was a close call.  I would have expected the same reaction if he had done it again... and again.

These events - coupled with his ever-resilient attitude on a day-to-day basis when put it similar situations - reminded me of a viral video going around the interwebs...  perhaps you've heard of or seen it:  "Bizkit the Sleepwalking Dog".  If you haven't seen it, type those words into the YouTube search bar right now!  If you are like 99% of the people in the free world and have seen this video, than you know what I'm talking about.  The yellow lab in this video (who bears a striking resemblence to my Jake) is sleeping on the floor, starts dreaming (apparently that he is running in an endless field), shuffles his legs as if running in said dream field, gets up, and.... runs straight into the wall in front of him!  

Hilarious, right?  Well, this is what I mean.  What an amazing threshold for pain!!  I mean, can you imagine how much that would have hurt.  Had I been the victim, directly after the assault I would have - probably while bleeding - jumped up and down and cursed and kicked and punched things to generate new pain, you know... to take help me forget about the pain I was feeling from running into the wall...

Anyway, Jake is a super-pup and I just wanted to present some backup to prove it.  Any funny doggie stories?
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6 comments:

  1. AnonymousMarch 14, 2009 at 11:08 PM

    Um....I read them. Where's the engagement story?

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  2. AnonymousMarch 15, 2009 at 1:04 AM

    Remember my old dog Dakota? One day I decided it would be good idea to take him for a walk on my roller blades. Long story short, we got to full speed and he turned around to look at something, turned back around and ran his head into the post of a mailbox. You'd think this would hurt but he stood up, thought about it for about 5 seconds and off we went, back up to full speed....

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  3. SkipMarch 15, 2009 at 11:00 AM

    Haha, yes I remember Moo and I remember you telling me that story... that's a perfect example.

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  4. AnonymousMarch 15, 2009 at 5:36 PM

    A similar thing happened to Jake...We were on a walk and being the nosey dog he is, he was looking around, mainly behind him b/c he heard a dog bark and I took my eyes off him for a second and he slammed right into a telephone/electric pole. It even made a "thump" but he didn't do much but shake his head and kept on going.

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  5. tinaMarch 17, 2009 at 10:11 PM

    my poor little princess had a brush with pain a few days ago. i took her to my sister's house to play with her new puppy. this little mutt is only about 9 weeks old, has a ton of energy, and RAZOR sharp puppy teeth. princess is 7 yrs old and wasnt terribly enthusiastic about playing puppy games. i finally got princess rowled up and convinced her to play 'chase' with the puppy. princess was letting the puppy chase her around the yard, when all of a sudden i hear 'ba-ROOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!' the puppy had caught up to princess and took a nice bite of her mootzie with those razor teeth. princess needless to say turned around, let out a nice growl, and took that puppy down to the ground faster than cesar millan. i of course am a large child and laughed hysterically. my poor doggie

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  6. SkipMarch 18, 2009 at 2:15 PM

    awww... her poor mootzie! that certainly is a traumatic experience. damn those puppies have some energy!

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