I ran into J at yoga – she is the consummate dog whisperer – now most wouldn’t want to be entered into the book of records as having been Loca’s dog trainer, but J was really terrific with her – they had a thing between them.
I remember one day J was working with Loca and my mom was sitting on the sofa and Loca jumped up on my mom and J jerked Loca back so fast, she flew across the coffee table and ended sitting straight up – I was like wow! – a few minutes later, before I had a chance to recover from that scene, J ran to the window because her 78 year old mother, who has Alzheimer, was passing by with her pocketbook tucked firmly under her arm – J later told me that the pocketbook is kept empty.
Anyway, I still never paid J for the dog whispering services and so I have been trying to catch up with her. She said this dog found her a while ago and the dog was so wound up that she would have to take it running as she rode her bike just to pace the dog as fast as he wanted to go. Just the other day, she was at her boyfriend’s house in Metairie and the dog climbed the fence like a monkey and got out. Some people found the dog in their yard and ended up bringing it to a friend of theirs who had one year ago lost a dog that looked similar.
Turns out, it WAS their dog! – so J, who had fallen in love with this rescue dog, was happy to see a reunion story come out of losing her dog.