A tale of two canines

I had a bunch of errands to run today, including a trip down to City Hall to change my city car registration. (Yes, you have to do that in person if you're getting a parking zone added.) However, long experience with Butters tells me I can't really leave her alone for more than a few minutes. "Alone" in this case means "without human supervision," as even with Cassie present, Butters does a passable impression of an air-raid siren if she discovers she is without human company. I assume that keeping her for months or years would help her understand that the world won't end if she's alone for an hour, simply because after a couple of years she stopped baying when her own humans left her alone in their house.

In any event, I managed to turn today into a couple of bonus walks by taking Butters to day camp by car, returning home, and walking Cassie to the same place. Cassie, of course, looked bewildered when I left with Butters and not her, but she didn't start bellowing as Butters would have done had the roles reversed. Then Cassie and I got to day camp in 19 minutes at an average pace of 8'44" per kilometer. Contrast this with yesterday's walk of about the same distance with Butters, which took over half an hour at an average pace of 11'28" per kilometer.

I've got one more errand to run before reversing the process: Divvying over to day camp, walking Cassie home, then driving back to day camp to fetch Butters.

I hope the weather is warm enough this weekend that I can take them both someplace social. It might get up to 20°C Sunday and 19°C Monday! Who knows? We might even make it all the way to Begyle (2.8 km) for their Mayfestiversary party. I know Butters can walk that far because she managed it yesterday; but will she tolerate the crowds? With the amount of barbecue people drop at the event, I suspect so. Stay tuned.