It was a nice drive alright….but it had been raining all day. He had just reached the outside of Estes Park and he was planning on a dry bed for the night. She was excited for something different and he was always reminding himself that it was her trip also.
So after renting a cabin for the night, he flopped down on a bed that smelled a bit musty. She was not in the mood for sleep after having been confined to the front seat of the truck all day. She wanted some action. So he reluctantly agreed.
Out the back of the cabin they went to the endless mountain framed fields that were made available to them. She was working at a quick pace, traversing back and forth to the myriad of scents released by the fresh rainfall. They walked a couple miles on three different tacks, all the while the rain stopped and the sun shone brightly on the high grasses.
They eventually returned to the cabin and sat for a few moments in the lone chair on the porch. Black Labs look good lying on a porch staring out to the woodlands attentively, and she was no exception. He was very content, until he reached in his pocket to retrieve his cabin key and he discovered his car keys missing. Buzz kill.
He remembered handling them absent mindedly while walked in the fields with the dog. He knew then that he must have dropped them on the walk. Fear surfaced, and resulted in another walk to see if possibly he could find them, in the high grass, yeah right!
He had walked about a mile or so as the sun slowly set beyond the Rockies. She came at him swiftly and circled around him, tail swaging steadily. He did not respond at first as he was feeling ….well…he was bumming at that point.
She was really pestering him now and at one point she stuck her nose between his legs and he just exclaimed “what….what do you want?” It was then that he saw what was in her mouth, clutched between her teeth, his car keys.
Good nose............ good dog........ good friend .....
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