Paw Partner Adventures: Jethro

Meet Jethro.

My Paw Partner this week was a 5 year old, 65-ish pound beagle/foxhound mix 

who likes to sniff...

a lot.

I was a little short on time so the plan was to stay in the neighborhood and head to the park. I knew right away this was going to be a walk and not a run because when Jethro decides he wants to stop, he STOPS -- abruptly. Even walking, I almost landed on my face a couple times. It took a while to walk the mile from the shelter to the park entrance with all of his stopping, sniffing, and leg raising. Jethro is also a "weaver" meaning he is constantly changing from walking on the right side, to the left side, to ahead of me one second, and behind me the next. I'm pretty sure he walked an extra mile in the process.

We took a lap around the walking trail at the park with more stopping, sniffing, and leg raising, when Jethro discovered...

wait for it....

geese!

Pictures can't capture his excitement: ear flopping, tail wagging, if-only-I-wasn't-on-this-leash-I'm-pretty-sure-I-could-catch-me-one excitement.

He showed off his low, loud hound-dog bay for a good 5 minutes, but they just wouldn't come any closer.

Once I was finally able to drag him away from the geese and water, he seemed to figure out we were headed back toward the shelter and came up with another game to extend our outing. It was called, "Wait! There's something in these bushes!!" And this game continued the half mile length of the bush-lined fence leading out of the park. We never did figure out what was in those bushes, but not for lack of trying.

Eventually we made it to the sidewalk and finally, over an hour from the time we left, back to the shelter. I scratched his ears, patted his head, rubbed his belly, and said goodbye. He looked at me woefully, wagged his tail, and slobbered a little. Typical hound.

See ya, Jethro. I hope you get adopted soon!  :)