Nightmare! Don't Ever Let This Happen To You! 

Hogan Here!

Every year, in the Spring, I am driven miles away from home for photo shoots in the bluebonnets.  This year, we were too early and there wasn’t a bluebonnet in sight. Was I glad. It’s just not doglike to sit in a pile of bluebonnets!

I didn’t think that anything could make me feel less doglike until the car stopped abruptly at a fence and behind that fence were draft horses so big that the fence was dwarfed.  The heads of the horses were the size of a large dog, the eyes were only slits and the manes were white against a dark brown coat of fur showing muscles that didn’t belong on this earth.  So, I sat motionless in the car.  I didn’t even breath.  All I could think of was a horse attack.  Mom and Dad snapped picture after picture while I was turning blue.  Just as I was ready to pass out, we drove for home.

But, home became a different place for me.  Now,  I won’t go outside unless Mom goes with me.   I need to desensitize.    Since the neighborhood doesn’t have a draft horse for standard desensitization,  I am shaving away my nervous edge by barking down the pool man and his leaf blower.  Don’t like either at all and both frighten me.  Guess that they are frightened, too,  Why else would the pool company code our house as having a dangerous canine.  Just wait ‘til they get a load of the draft horse when it decides to come by. 

NIGHTMARE