The first incident occurred when we were getting the dogs ready to go for a walk. I put Steffi in the car to wait and left Anika in the garage. But I also left the prong collar on Anika. You know those awful-looking collars, used for training:
Now, I never, ever leave a choke collar on my girls because I've heard horror stories of dogs getting strangled on them, so why I would leave her alone in the garage with one of these on is just beyond my own comprehension. She tried to get it off by putting her paw in between the prongs and got it stuck. She started howling and both my husband and I came running! Luckily for all of us, she didn't hurt herself. But it could have been horrible.
My second incident of absent-mindedness happened yesterday when I came home from the store, drove in the garage, and went in the house, but left the garage door open and the door to the back yard from the garage open. The dogs were safely in the house. But did I leave them there? No. I got distracted, let them out the back door and put stuff away. Then my internal alarm went off. Did I close the garage door? Yikes! I ran downstairs to check on the dogs, saw the garage door open and panicked. Thank goodness those dogs were merely circling the car, hoping for a ride and not running loose in the street!
I was extremely lucky in both cases that nothing happened to the dogs, but I need to make sure my head in on straight from now on!
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