Who Let The Dogs Out!

I was in the kitchen yesterday and a big yellow lab jumped in my back pond.  The pond is a small kidney shaped thing, about as big as the dog.  He trashed the plants, but was having a great time.  Turns out he had a brother, about the same size, who decided to join him.  After much yelling and pulling on their collars, I dragged the dogs out of the pond.

I decide to put them in the garage, until I could get the police to pick them up.  Yes, the police actually do this in Cedarburg. Not much else happens around here. 

As I'm putting the dogs in the garage, 3 little boys show up and announce that they know where the dogs live.  I put a rope through both dogs collars and the four of us set out to bring the dogs home. Only two blocks away.  What can happen....... 

One block down, the dogs see another dog and bolt.  Everyone lets go of the rope, but one little boy, who gets dragged across my neighbors back yard.  It looked like a scene from Indiana Jones!  The kid gets up and starts yelling "Wow That Was Cool!". His two brothers join him in their excitement and they round up the dogs.  I, of course, almost had a heart attack!

Just then, the lady who owns the dogs drives up in a mini van.  Orders the dogs inside.  The dogs jump in!  Then she announces she's taking everyone for a McFlurry for doing such a good job, finding her dogs.  We call the boys Mom, she says OK.  Off the boys, dogs and Mom go in the van.  I'm left standing at the curb, wet with a rope in my hand!

Those kids are going to be talking about getting dragged across the yard, until they go back to school!  They were also very excited to find out I had a pond............