Wednesday Walks: Utilities Inspector

Last week Butterball and I headed out for a hack. They are doing some sort of utility work up and down my whole road, which is also Butterball's whole road. Perhaps we're getting high speed internet? Might make waking up to the whole house shaking worthwhile... 

The ride started out innocuous enough

But this sign along the side of the 55 MPH road (where people go 70...)

Made me hop off to walk up to it in hand, which I had already done once before over a gaping hole they had left in the ground. 

Once I was on the ground with him, he pretty readily approached the sign. And considered knocking it over, but I managed to talk him out of it. Fortunately he's not the type to do that and then spook at it. But the poor utility workers need their sign. 

Then we found someone's mattress. But with the click and treat method, he approached it all on his own. 

And touched it all over. 

Before moving on

He also touched this flag for fun. There's a whole fenceline of them that spooked him pretty badly the first time we came by. Now he gives no shits. I love that about him. 

Trotting with his nose to the ground in his hackamore is just delightful. I wondered if he was going to try to eat while trotting. I wouldn't put it past him. 

And then acted as an inspector. He sniffed the plate. And then pawed at it. Fortunately it was pretty well anchored in so it didn't move. 

He didn't pass this one though, it was not fully placed... 

Nope. Not okay. The corner is lifted. 

Rewarded for his GOOD BOY status by getting to weed eat the pasture fences

A few stops to walk up to the scary things, but some canter and trot bits 

Plz excuse the janky formatting. I added a gif I made for the first time. And struggle bussed the whole way through it. Twenty minutes later, I gave, so if the alignment isn't right, sorry, not sorry. Sheesh. Good thing the only technology I need for my job is the ability to type.