Don’t you just love life’s little wake-up calls?  Do you heed them?

I’ve been settling in nicely I thought with my work at the animal shelter, including doing off-site adoption events.  We mostly take the smaller dogs, for many reasons but the biggest being they are easier to find homes for.  Today was not as spectacular as the previous events, but we took some great little guys and gals and they mostly get along fine and show fairly well.  I’ve been pretty relaxed and confident around them both outside and at the shelter, but at the end of the day today, I got got by a little wiry terrier who clearly didn’t want to go back into the truck!

I’ve been nipped a couple of times but not having been around a small dog of my own since I was a young child, I had formed the opinion that little guys don’t really bite hard – I mean, how can they, they’re just little guys.  So, wrong, wrong and wrong again.  Today I experienced first hand just how hard 🙁

It was a really important reminder for me that around animals you always need to be alert and expect the unexpected.

Much, much better to have learned the hard way with a small dog than with a large, don’t you think?!

So all is well, tomorrow’s a brand new day, and I am duly chastened.

P.S. I am participating in the Ultimate Blog Challenge this month – 31 days of July, a blog a day if I can.