Aside from the panting and farting, Harley is a very quiet dog.
So I was very surprised when we ran into a large, yippie dog during the morning walk.
We were by a busy street, but the other dog was off leash and the owner was wearing flipflops, in the snow.
The yippie dog and Harley did the obligatory sniff down.
Harley was over the dog after a few minutes and wanted to move on, but the dog kept bouncing around him. We couldn’t go because the dog blocked Harley’s path, wanting to play. The owner, in his flipflop-ness, was too cold to move from the side of the road, and yippie was not listening to him.
Suddenly Harley ROARED! It was the dog equivalent of an exasperated scream. The message was very clear: BACK UP OFF ME!
He has never done that before so I was shocked and terribly, terribly amused.
The other dog was freaked out, his owner was visibly worried, and I was choking with laughter.
My dog is awesome.
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