Occasionally weird things turn up in the woods. The weirdest was probably a carpet sweeper propped next to a lean to made of branches. Like someone needed to carpet sweep the undergrowth.
But on this evening we found a tyre. Nothing particularly special about this tyre, kind of smaller than a regular type, but a tyre, heavy, solid. The mutts gave it a once over - but very quickly got bored of it. Lying a little off the path I figured I could shift it and make it roll along - and maybe impossibly reach the edge of the forest for the council to pick up, thus doing my good Samaritan / environmentalist bit for the day. Of course it would never make it, but I would roll it a ways and see how it did.
Pulled it out. Stood it up, gave it a push and off it rolled.
Much to the renewed interest and wild delight of mutt #1.
This was a new and exciting thing to chase, bark and nip at ! And with each nip she managed to nudge it with her nose and give it an extra push which resulted in two things. One. Mutt#1 was driven to greater noise and effort due to the tyre not succumbing to her will and always running away from her. Two. The tyre was moving ever faster in a bizarrely perfectly balanced, perfectly pushed kind of way.
Mutt and tyre soon disappeared out of sight up the path. Like some bizarre unlikely staged sit-com scene.
The chase ended some minutes later when the tyre hit the metal gate at the edge of the woods with a loud ringing clang, which was probably fortunate, otherwise both tyre and mutt would have continued to speed along the road outside the woods to who knows where.
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