Linda is feeling pretty guilty right now. Part of dog ownership is making sure your dogs get plenty of exercise. Cesar recommends an hour a day for most dogs. If he met Chimi, he would surely double that amount of time. Guess how much we walked today? Zero minutes. It wasn't from bad weather or injury, it wasn't even because Linda was too busy. She only taught three classes and has been awake so far for 15 hours. (She did have church tonight though, so that is a valid excuse for that time.) The post yesterday was about lazy people not walking their dogs and today... Linda is one of those lazy people. When time slipped away from her this afternoon (it was too cold and dark early this morning), she planned to walk us after church at 9:30 p.m.. On Wednesday, she tries not to stay too long after service since 1) she hasn't eaten since Noon and she is starving 2) walking after 10 p.m. alone sometimes gets her spooked. It's dark and there isn't streetlights. So... Poor Chim only had backyard time to run and play. As you can tell from the video, he gets pretty excited about the whole "Do You Want Me To Get My Shoes On?" routine.
Right now he is sitting on the couch next to us crying and whimpering. Linda is feeling worse and worse, she might just get her SHOES on and take us after all.
UPDATE: When she previewed this post and played back the video to be sure it was working, Chim heard the "Shoes On" and started going crazy. She had to take us since he wouldn't have calmed down on his own. We only did 25 minutes. Linda bundled us both up in our heaviest coats and she wore the Bean, but her legs got really cold in her jeans. She has to buy a pair of those super-warm winter running tights or cozy fleece insulated sweat pants.
