This sort of behavior is so interesting to me because I come from a family with no addiction issues. Everyone is a jolly drunk. I drink and I'm like Oh my god! Life has SO MUCH MEANING! Lol. People that go the other direction, well it is just interesting. Small islands of calm, yes, that is what she has going on.
I thought of you about a month ago. I was walking in the woods on a trail. I drove there and parked in the lot outside of it, and there was nobody parked. The woods was entirely mine, and my dog's. This particular dog of mine is a rescue and came to me as an abused, unsocialized plott hound, which is just a really rough combo for a plott hound. They are protective natured to begin with. So she has appointed herself my bodyguard. Which is fine - she has definitely calmed down a lot in the year I have had her and is far less homicidal. So anyway, at some point I decided to meander down the bike trail because I was sure there was nobody else out there...and I was wrong. I had about a ten second warning of this biker that came out of nowhere at full speed. My dog decides to hold her ground in the middle of the narrow path, but without her characteristic growling, so in that ten seconds I didn't immediately grab her by the harness and yank her out of the way. The biker stops to avoid crashing into her. She promptly reaches up (she is fairly tall) and latches onto his arm. She didn't bite down, just put her mouth there, basically it was a warning saying Stay away from my woman. She lets go. He looks nonchalantly at us like he respected her concerns, and took off without a word. And the guy really looked like you. I stood there for a minute like My dog just attacked Meesterboom and he was totally cool about it. I knew I liked that guy. Seriously, despite that there was no blood drawn, your average American would have lost their shit, possibly called Animal Control, who knows. Or maybe not - maybe I have little faith in my own culture. Either way, I thought it was pretty amazing. So ride your bike in my woods anytime :)
Ha, that's the same as my family. Well, apart from my brother, he had a torrid time with alcohol. But apart from him everyone happily drinks and thinks life is fab.
It was me!!!
Lol, that is awesome. Your dog is the biz. It must be quite reassuring gadding about with her. I bet. Thankfully the guy wasn't a hysterical maniac!!
If he wasn't me... ;0)