Fenced Dog Alert

Yesterday morning while my Dad was getting ready to take us for a walk he had the TV on and there was a weather report that said there was a Fenced Dog Alert.

Now this doesn’t make any sense to me for a whole bunch of reasons.

First, maybe these meteorologists should focus on the weather and not whether a dog is in a fenced yard or out on the street. If they did this maybe they could actually accurately predict the weather…just a thought.

Second, I see no problems with dogs being fenced in their yards. In my experience, when dogs are in their yards and not running free bad things tend not to happen. I mean we may exchange a few words with those other dogs but we don’t go nearly as nuts – nor do our parents get as freaked out – as wehn the other dogs are off leash and NOT fenced in. I also know from personal experience, getting outside of your backyard…say Dad forgot to close the gate or it didn’t latch correctly…can really freak me out. This happened once and I ended up throwing up outside the other gate to our yard because I wanted to get in but forgot how I got out.

Third, I have heard horror stories of my fellow kind getting out of there yards and getting hurt – apparently cars can be dangerous which is weird because we always have a blast when we go for a ride. This reminds me of this advertisement I saw not long ago:

http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7fa_/subaru-dog-tested

How fun is that?!?!?!?

Oh yeah, as I was saying I see no reason for the weather on the news to issue a Fenced Dog Alert or warning….

DAD: “Sorry to interrupt your rant Montana – I know I am supposed to just be acting as your scribe – but I think I need to stop you now and inform you that the weather people said: “Dense Fog”. Not “Fenced Dog”.

MONTANA: Oh. Never mind.

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OK. I must admit that I didn’t really think they said “Fenced Dog” but after seeing an old episode of Saturday Night Live I convinced Dad that I should do my own Emily Litella impersonation.

He did a pretty good Jane Curtin if you ask me.

I’m not saying I nailed it or anything but it was fun to try.

Here is how it looked outside yesterday.