Bunny? What Bunny?

Bunny? What bunny?
Jun 28th 2008
wolfmoonsleddog
Southeast
Location: Northwest GA
Time - 11:42am
Temperature: 82 degrees F
Conditions: Clear, humid
Forecast: Thunderstorms today and tomorrow. Highs in the 80s, lows in the 60s

A few days ago I hit the trail early with Calypso and we were the first ones out. I looked up ahead towards a grassy patch and sure enough there was a little brown rabbit just sitting there. Oh great.

Calypso continued along, looking at the sights and sniffing the air. We came closer and closer to the rabbit and it still didn’t move and Calypso still didn’t see it. We ran right by it and it finally hopped away into the brush. Calypso STILL didn’t see it, she was looking at the other side of the road.

Goofball!

So we continued our run and stopped at the creek to rest and cool off. Unfortunately we couldn’t use the water in the creek to cool off because THERE IS NO WATER in the creek anymore. Yes, we’re hoping for rain.

We turned around and I thought for sure the rabbit was long gone. But we came around a curve and there it was! Just sitting there beside the road. And this time Calypso did see it! Her ears went up as she honed in on it and you could just see her focus switch. Dogs run entirely different when they are after animals. The rabbit for some bizarre reason decided it would be a good idea to hop down the road in front of us, so we had a rabbit for a loose leader!

Finally it hopped away into the bushes and Calypso tried to follow. I yelled “on by!” (it seems like I yell this a lot) and, of course, she didn’t listen to me so I had to lead her back onto the trail. But it was a fun run and we all had a good time. Well, Calypso and I did.