{"id":4300,"date":"2020-02-28T06:02:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T06:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/?p=4300"},"modified":"2020-02-28T06:02:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T06:02:17","slug":"polite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/28\/polite\/","title":{"rendered":"Polite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Out for a walk this evening with the two schnoodles, including my social anxiety dog. <!--more-->To be clear, <em>she<\/em>\u00a0has social anxiety &#8211; she certainly doesn\u2019t help at all with mine. On the way to the river we met an elderly couple who had a rather rotund mutt with them. He looked harmless enough, until he started attacking my nervous dog. The old people looked mildly disturbed by this, although not too surprised. The lady said something I didn\u2019t catch &#8211; I assumed it was an apology of a sort, but it may have been \u201cmy dog likes to attack other dogs, and we don\u2019t mind\u201d. Anyway, to make them feel better, I said my dog was stupid, picked it up and hurried off.<\/p>\n<p>A little further on, someone who had seen the whole thing said to me \u201cha ha that dog looked really hungry!\u201d. I just smiled and walked on. Of course, what I should have explained was that schnoodles make terrible eating, because all that fluff gets stuck in your teeth, but unfortunately I didn\u2019t think of it quickly enough. 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