5 second synopsis:
Lovely family dog (St. Bernard) contracts rabies and terrifies a small town with grizzly encounters. In my opinion, not Mr. King's best work, but here I am 25 years later rattling off the plot to you. Yes, it made an impression.
Unfortunately, I know another dog with a 4 letter name that has been terrorizing a small town of late... L-O-L-A. It pains me to say it, but our beloved pooch is kind of a nightmare these days. Case in point, a snippet of an email I sent to my husband this afternoon after a shopping trip gone bad.
At a shoe store (local designer - nothing too posh - which is a good thing you will realize as reading on) I was looking around and I noticed that Lola had seen herself in the floor to ceiling mirror behind where I was standing. So I stopped and watched her, b/c as a puppy she loved this game.
So she locks her gaze and then lifts her front paw and starts to point. Cute, right? Then she starts to growl a little bit... and all the shop ladies laugh a little b/c we realize she is trying to intimidate her own reflection.
And then all HELL broke lose. She charged the mirror barking like the worst Cujo impersonation you could ever imagine. Then she got on her hind legs and started clawing the mirror and biting it - getting it all smudgy from her mouth and nose. I had to PULL her away from the mirror with all of my strength and then calm her down. She was absolutely crazed and out of her mind. Women starting screaming in the shop that didn't know what was going on b/c they thought some poor dog was being murdered by another dog.
I stayed there and calmed her down... one shop lady came over to help me pet her and shush her. Then, we were asked to leave.
Our sweet pooch has been having some random rage episodes recently... so we have enlisted Amsterdam's version of the dog whisperer to give us some insight in the coming weeks. I will bore you with the details soon.
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