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Thursday, April 1, 2010

Goldie's Day Out

Our first adventure was getting Goldie registered. For that we had to take her to the Dog Show, where a judge would certify her to be a fine Golden Retriever. Now, Goldie came highly recommended for car rides. I am guessing what they meant was, Goldie recommends car rides.
 Anyway, we set off for the show, quite a normal family to the untrained eye. Mom was at the wheel and Goldie and us kids in the back. We didn't quite envison the entrance we would make everywhere. The sight that greeted the curious onlooker was thus:
A nice car with a lovely lady at the wheel. One beautiful golden  haired dog in the back, trying with all her might to jumpo out of the car window obviously too small for her. Two kids flying from one end of the car to the other almost falling out of the window themselves, courtesy, Goldie's frantic attempts to inform each and every person, animal, living thing on the street that we were goign somewhere. So we had a rocking car, literally, since a Golden Retriever and two kids weigh enough to make the car resemble a ship on the torrid high seas.
Thus we managed to reach the venue. Now the challenge: how do you get a willful Golden out of the car? Well, open the door and tell the kids to hold the leash one would say, right? Exactly the mistake my mom made. The door opened and whoosh!! Goldie was running full speed with two kids in tow, clinging on to the leash, hanging on for dear life. In this way, Goldie took us in and out of every car in that parking lot. In one side , out of the other, in one door, out the other, sometimes out the same in case the other door was closed.
The whole scene was like a circus show gone wrong. One merry Golden having fun running with two kids in tow( one with wild hair since dear bro had managed to pull the hairband out). A worried frantic lady(mom: poor thing) running behind trying to catch them, a few helpful people who had made the folly to volunteer to help us out, and a couple of security guards also playing catch.
Gosh! what a sight! Well, finally a quick person(who also owned Golden Retrievers :D) caught Goldies collar and voila! Goldie came to a barking halt. And thus , Goldie was shown to a judge , certified , blah blah. And then we were all bundled in the car and headed for home sweet home. An exhausted and contented family(relatively since Goldie occasionaly informed everyone of our progrees towards destination home).
Goldie's day at the show thus ended happily!