In an effort to help me realize my fitness goals my Master has insisted that I take a daily walk. I hate walking and I told him that but I also said that I would give it a try. In the past whenever anyone suggested taking a walk my response always was "there better be ice cream at the end of this" there never was. I had to find a new reason to justify spending my time on a walk. This has been difficult for me. I do not understand the joy that people get out of taking a walk. The reason I landed on was "I feel good that I have accomplished this."
My experiences on my walks, not all of which I have related to my Master, have been of a wide variety. There was the day I watched several geese swarm a lady with a handful of bread. There was the mother with a jogging stroller that would jog for a way and then suddenly stop and I almost ran into her several times. There was a little old lady that struck up a conversation with me as I rested on a bench and asked me where I was walking to. When I replied that I was just walking around the lake for exercise she shook her head and said "nonsense", I had to agree with her. Of course there was the day I forgot my water bottle and practically passed out from the heat (no I'm not being dramatic). Of course there has been the numerous tangle of dogs on leashes where their owners can't seem to keep them under control. However today I actually stopped and petted one of those dogs. He was a cute little fluffy thing I have no idea what kind but he didn't bark at me and he didn't try to bite me so score one for me. The point I'm trying to make with all this is I still don't like taking a walk. I am still having trouble finding the joy in it, at least on a daily basis, but I have learned to stick with something which hasn't always been the case in the past. And my Master knows this and I suspect that is why he pushes me to go on these walks, either that or he is a sadist and has kept that fact to himself. Now it's my time to go find some ice cream.