I’ve been meaning to address this for a long time: I don’t know why Beagle Man treats me like fine china. It’s nuts. Two years ago, on LA/XC-1, he wouldn’t carry his stuff from the car to the motel room without keeping me right alongside him on the leash. Last year he got the brilliant idea of keeping me nice and secure in the crate in the back of the SUV while he did all the packing and unpacking. And this year, just this morning, when he was loading the
car on the way to the Ohio State University, he had his hands full and had to drop the leash, but then he immediately stepped on it — as if I were about to sprint for the highway. What I’d like to ask him is, where am I going so fast? And why? Yeah, I know Sandy the breeder and Dr. B., the vet, always said never, ever let a beagle off leash. But that’s for normal beagles. I’m 10, and kind of set in my ways. What am I going to do out in the wild? Catch frogs and mice? I’m actually pretty damn happy with the venison diet the B-Man keeps me on, and the sweet potatoes and bananas he gives me with my pills. I ride next to him in the car across the whole country, I get my 22 hours beauty rest, and from time to time we’ll play a little fetch. And I’m going to run away from this? Yeah, B-Man can be weird at times, but on the whole, I have a pretty good gig.
I plan to write The Roof Rack Report for this blog (#roofrackreport on Twitter, for those who follow me already on @BeagleManHank) as often as I can while we’re on the road. Provided, of course, I get my necessary allotment of sleep :).
Oh, Ricky, you don’t fool me with that innocent act. Yeah, you’ve got it better than most dogs (actually, better than some humans), but all it would take is one shiny distraction, and you’d be gone. I’ve been fooled by doleful eyes like yours before. 🙂
In B-Man’s defense, maybe he is just as concerned with your being dog-napped. After all who could resist a handsome, not to mention famous beagle such as yourself? People might just think they could collect a huge ransom for the likes of you.
But of course there is also the more likely scenario that if you are anything like my beagle, Brinkley you will do anything for a Chick-Fil-A nugget with no regard for safety and only think of loyalty as an after thought!
BTW – I know that Atlanta is one of your stops, so bear in mind that Atlanta is the original home of Chick-Fil-A, the home of Waffle House as well as the famous Varsity Drive-In and Sublime Doughnuts. Let me know if you are coming through on a week-end as Brinkley and I would love to meet you.