Run, Run, Run......

Well, today was an exciting time! Dixie ran out the front door of the house! We had moved an exercise bike out to the garage and had forgotten the door was wide open. Dixie, who was on a length of wire, was maurauding in my flower garden when we were disassembling the bike to put it away, so I opened the door to the kitchen and put him inside. When I went in the house after the bike was dismantled and put up, I realized the front door was open and Dixie was gone! As I realized that, I heard him barking. I ran out the back of the garage calling him and heard a reply from my neighbor, two doors up, "he's up here". Of course he responded to his name and made a wide run around me, on the golf course, then went back to menace the neighbor. I opened the gate to their pool and he followed me inside, where I was finally able to capture him! I thanked my neighbor and took him home, put him in his wading pool to cool down and took him in the house! Whenever he gets loose, which is not often, it is a devil of a time getting him back. He is very smart and knows commands, but pays no attention to his name when he's running about the golf course out back! I am grateful to have him safe and I don't want to lose him, but I fear he sees me as his jailer when I call him to return! He gets plenty of walking time and play time, but this little adventure is the icing on his cake!