Vern and the Man in the Lawn Chair!

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

Most of you know that our Vern is a big ol' chicken. Yesterday, I was doing some training with them up at the state park and both dogs were doing beautifully until Vern spotted a man sitting in a lawn chair. I did not have my camera, so some of this blog will be a reenactment. Here is how threatening the man appeared:

Vern started backing into me and nothing I did could get him to refocus his attention. He started acting like this:

and like he had this hot on his tail:

Fudge kept looking at Vern and me like she was thinking, "It is a lawn chair, Vern! Get a grip." or maybe even like she was thinking this:

Luckily, because the man never moved from his spot, we were able to escape and make our way to the car. There was one scary moment, when he shifted in his chair and adjusted his hat, but we kept moving. When we got home, Vern was exhausted. After all, it isn't being such a good watchdog!

Monday, we are going back to the park in search of more men in lawn chairs and we'll keep going back until Vern conquers this fear. I only hope I can find subjects and distractions that look like this:

and not like this:

[Jane, Guinness and Murphy]

Oh I've really missed DK over the past few days!  This is hysterical, Laurie!  Poor scared Vern!  Good luck finding a distraction like picture #1....what we won't do in the name of Doodle training.

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

Nancie, I don't know if this is the famous Weiner....LOL!

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

Thanks, everyone for the nice comments. Jane, My rating system could be a whole Depends, a half Depends and you get the idea :)

[Jane, Rooney & Stuart]

Laurie - from now on could you please come up with some type of rating system for your posts?  Kinda like the movie ratings G, PG, etc.  I'd like to be more prepared.  I think that the worst rating which would equate to the very funnyiest of posts should be the "panty (or is that pantie)  liner" rating.  This way I can stop from peeing my pants from laughing so hard when I read this stuff!!!!   The level down from that could be the "spew your drink" level.  You can come up with your own ratings but I'd like some warning. 

[Lisa, Daisy & Dexter]

Pronunciation: WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ner

Oh wrong discussion.

[Lisa, Daisy & Dexter]

Ha ha ha - yes he was hacked!

[Nancie & Gracie Doodle]

Hey, is that last photo the famous one of Rep. Anthony Weiner on Twitter?

[Lynn D.]

I love your posts! I wish I knew Vern and Fudge (and you too Laurie!) personally. You all have a great sense of humour.

[Linda, Webber and Seda]

Another winner, Laurie.  Your posts are so much fun that I look for them every day!  That old gentleman in his undies is pretty scary though! I'll take door number 1.  Webber doesn't react to chairs but he gets freaked out by men in hats.  Vern is SO cute.

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

Giggled all the way through! Poor Vern; he just wants to have some control in his life!  To flee or to hide behind Mom!