Paw Print

I try and walk my boys each night after work (loving daylight savings time) however the past two weeks I have only been walking Ryder the 10.5 year old leaving Tahoe 12, at home.  Tahoe is pretty much blind from his diabetes and he walks on one of his wrists and not his paw which has to be painful.  It breaks my heart every night when I get ready to go and tell Tahoe he can’t come while he’s at the door ready to bolt.  Since he can’t see he can only sense things around him and he gets rather surly even if in no danger, so it’s really better to leave him at home (plus Ryder and I get a much better cardio workout).  I have lived in my neighborhood for 10 years and ironically I know all of the dogs names but very few of their owners names and vice versa.  Funny thing is although the humans don’t know each other by name we are all certainly aware of each other.  I know this because I have spoken to more people in the neighborhood in the past two weeks than in the past 10 years - they’ve stopped or come out to ask me “where is the other one?” It’s nice to know they’ve noticed us walking for the past 10 years and care enough to ask about Tahoe, I would never have known they saw us passing by.