Salvador has had many adventures, but I see the following as a true adventure in that I was not part of it and can merely speculate on the exact happenings, yet might never find out what truly happened yesterday. Here follows a brief telling of what I think might have gone down...
Yesterday I took Salvador with me to work since the girls have been asking me to do so for some time now. Upon arriving at the school, I realized we were pretty early and it being extremely hot in the car, I decided that we would go and wait out the extra half hour on a forest clearing just across the road from school - there being lots of shade and a little stream for him to catch a dip in and all. When we arrive he runs off sniffing and I find a shady spot to sit in while he explores. With this area being not very level, I lost sight of him for a while, but eventually he returns with tennis ball in mouth and all is well. At last it's time for us to go and collect the girls and the tennis ball is left on this field - I presumed it belonged to some other dog that also just left it there.
Skipping the rest of the afternoon's shenanigans, we arrive at the girl's bi-weekly tennis lesson whereupon the tennis instructor asks me, "was this dog at school today, I'm sure this dog came into the school today and stole one of my tennis balls!". So I tell him that Salvador was indeed at school this day, but he was on a lead the whole time and we were at the Primary school section, which is separate and quite some distance from the Pre-School area, where he couches the toddlers. So he says,"Strange, because a dog exactly like this one ran straight into the Prep school, took one of my tennis balls and promptly ran out again...", to which I said it must have been someone else's dog and we laughed. Although, upon further pondering about this funny story, I remembered Salvador returning to me earlier that day on the field with a RED and YELLOW tennis ball - the colors of the tennis balls the tennis teacher uses.
It then occurred to me that Salvador was indeed the culprit! This means in the space of a minute he crossed the road from the park to the school, slipped into the school parking lot, bypassing at least 3 security personnel, went into the prep school through two slam-lock type doors, which means these doors must have been opened by unaware parents at just the right moment, ran into the quad where the tennis lesson was in full swing, ran through at least 30 excited little girls (for which he has a large soft spot) and 2 fully grown human tennis couches, took a ball in his mouth, exited by way of before mentioned entrance and made it back in time to make it seem like he was responding to my 'COME' command!
No that is what I call a true adventure!
Makes you wonder what your dog gets up to when your aren't around....
Licks and Kisses
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