[today’s run: 1.5 miles + with wife]
We have a dog.
He actually does pretty well inside the house. He doesn’t make messes, he eats his food, he doesn’t bite people. He is a little bit obnoxious but not too bad as far as dogs go.
Inside he can follow commands like “sit” and “down”. But if you let him out of the house he turns into a “chase me” monster. He weaves and dodges and tries to get you to reach for him only to jump out of the way and zoom around for another few minutes. I get so angry at him sometimes that I could just scream. But 49 year old men are not supposed to scream, much.
My most recent successes at capturing him have been by using the long rope that I lead him with when we go for a run. He will zoom around just out of my reach and I can sometimes lasso him.
I think what I need to do is buy about a 10′ x 10′ net. Then I can throw the net over him.
Another strategy that sometimes works is to back the car out of the garage. He loves to ride in the car. He loves to even just sit in the car. So if I back out the car and open the door he usually will come and want in. I can then grab him, or, if I’m kindly disposed I load him up, pull into the garage and shut the garage door. Or, I can open the garage door and the car door, then wait for him to come to the car and shut the garage door. That gets him a little closer.
Once he knows he is caught than he comes right in with no problem. Ha ha, the game is over.
Maybe it would help to get one of those remote-zap collars. If I set it high enough it would be like the phaser on Star Trek, “set phasers to stun!” and he would just fall unconscious on the ground. That’s a tempting idea.. probably get me in trouble with the ASPCA so maybe we’ll go with the net first.