This has got to be the smallest town we have been camped near. It is a sad place – closed store fronts on what would be their main street, a housing development stopped mid-way, just a look of decay and forlornness (is that a word?).
For those of you who do not (or haven’t ever) owned a dog, you might want to skip this snippet of dog owner life. Karma has a predictable pattern to her behavior when she is about to poop. If she’s on a long leash she will circle, much like a horse tethered in a corral. She varies her gait from a slow walk, gallop, trot, walk, lope, etc. over and over again until it’s time. When she’s ready she spins on her hind legs and approaches her squat flinging poop out from her spin. Centrifugal force sends the items straight out at sometimes long distances. So, to ensure that we get each piece picked up it is necessary to watch very carefully as her circles get smaller and smaller and turn into spins. When she’s on a short leash, she starts with a figure 8 before she gets to her spinning and throwing of poop. Eventually she stops spinning but continues to poop and travels away from the original spot. So, it’s more like geo-caching than walking the dog.
