Moss meets her twin

It’s Panto week in our home town and since The Teenager is in the cast, it’s busy at home.  There’s a tight schedule to meet whilst juggling work, school and normal family life.  Dog walks have to be fast and purposeful.

Strolling purposefully in the woods one morning I come across a couple who have clearly lost their dog.  I call across to them,

            “Are you okay, have you lost your dog?”

            “Yes” they say “But she’ll probably come back.”

There’s no panic in their voices.  This is a big wood, popular with dog walkers, sometimes you meet people who are clearly distressed when their dog runs off, especially since a railway track runs close by.  These guys are okay. 

            “I’ll give three blasts on my whistle if I find her.” I say.

Which, on reflection, is rather a good idea, it’s horrible to be separated from your dog. 

We walk, Moss and I.  Then I see a tail, very much like Moss’s, flash through the woods, it seems to be heading in the right direction so I keep quiet and assume that they will be reunited.

We walk on, sometime later we bump into the couple again, and yes, they are with their dog. 

I realise that their dog is the splitting image of Moss, except she’s tan where Moss is black. Moss is unusually small for a Collie dog and has a distinctive athletic build, so does her twin.  The two dogs play together. Moss is slightly more dominant, but Mushroom (since she is the colour of mushrooms) is definitely up for a game. 

The dog owners are lovely, we launch into a full-on dog conversation.  Suddenly I remember I’m in a bit of a rush as it’s Panto week, so I hand them a justwalkingthedog.co.uk bookmark and hope that one day they will become subscribers.

It turns out that Panto week is full of surprises.

AJK