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Looking after my friends' dog at the moment.
Her previous owners never really trained her and let her around other dogs and always kept her in the backyard and never took her out for walks. So when my friends got her a couple of years ago she didn't understand how to do walks and wanted to go after other dogs (and cats, and birds).
The lunging after other dogs continued. But in the last year she has slowly started to calm down. She still huffs and puffs when she sees other dogs but doesn't lunge anymore. Until tonight.
Apparently she really didn't like the dog across the street because she started lunging. Unfortunately she tripped me up. I've bruised the palms of my hand, skinned both my elbows and hurt my knee. Luckily my elbows aren't bloody, but they and my knee are still deciding what colour they want to be. Knowing how easy I bruise I don't doubt it will look spectacular tomorrow morning.
I've cleaned out the skinned area on my elbows, took a shower, made a cup of tea and now I'm going to have to wait for my elbows to stop oozing and dry and hopefully stop being shaky before going to bed. Though I'll probably won't sleep much.
Luckily from Saturday the weather will turn colder; I won't be wearing anything short sleeved for a while.
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