The neighbors behind us just got a new puppy. She is a playful, active little ball of white fluff. Lexi, that’s her name, has made a new friend in the slightly older puppy next door. When I say older, I also mean much, much bigger.
As is typical with little puppies, they tend to pick on larger dogs in an attempt to get them to play with them. Coby, the much, much bigger puppy, happily complies and begins to chase Lexi across the yard. Coby has longer legs and within an instant can easily catch Lexi before she gets too far. However, Lexi has learned a move to avoid Coby, which I have termed an “evasive maneuver.” Just at the last minute before Coby is upon her, she does a rolling move that not only moves her to the side of the impending attack, but also somehow causes her to flip completely around and end up back on her feet. While Coby is still trying to process what happened, Lexi is already speeding back across the yard in the opposite direction.
It is a thing of beauty to watch, and confounds Coby every time. It gives new meaning to evasive maneuvers while “dog fighting.”
