I’m constantly mystified by the way my dog’s mind works. You’ve already seen that Hurley is immune to trains, trucks, and motorcycles, yet is still somehow deeply terrified of thunder. Now you know that she sees pool noodles as a threat too.
My parents have a swimming pool and when we went there last summer, Hurley didn’t know what to do with it. She’d been in lakes and ponds before, but she’d never seen a pool. She was too scared to jump into it, so she circled it anxiously instead, trying to decide if it was a threat. And then we busted out the pool noodles and she lost it. She began carefully picking them out of the water one by one, shaking them vigorously, then piling them neatly by the corner of the house. We all found it hilarious.
I love this dog.