The stories about SCL continue, on mass,
The lastest was a memory of taking care of Nebo, the husky. Nebo, is a hyper young dog, if he doesn’t run a total of 10 miles a day, then look out for the chewing to start from one end of the house to the other. He has eaten 1 yoga matt, Adv. Race pack, and multiple shoes, pens, lipsticks, remote controls, rose bushes, dog dishes, doors, the list is crazy long,his nick name became, Special, as in, he is a Special Neebs dog…
But this one day the rampage started, he didn’t want to go from the car to the house without a scene, and he was not going to listen, he even looked at me and he wispered, “I don’t have to do what you tell me too, I am going to run over here” and he was loose, running into the neighbors open door in their basement. He ran in, I heard screams and then he ran out. His backend didn’t know if he should run, buck or swirl, he tossed his head, he was on the LOOSE, and fancy free. I was helpless, running after him carrying laundry and saying blah, blah, blah, “bad dog”...
But he didn’t know that he was being tracked by a NH skier and high school soccer star, who can juke and jive with the best of them. What I witnessed on “D” street was the best mid air tackle ever, when Neebs went right and faked, SCL, read the fake and went left, grabbing the white husky mid air and wrangled him without a brutal throw down. Finishing with an upright hog tie with no escape in sight for the dog.
I was amazed it was pure athleticism and I was jealous, of the timing, strength and smarts, from SCL. No way did that just happen because if he had wiggled free, a car was just cruising by at a good clip and who knows what could have happened. Special Neebs got carried into the house for some dinner, and “The Tackle” went down in history, as a dog whispering technique that can only be produced by the mighty, SCL…
—xojk