So here is my dog / Husky story.
Before my current dog we had a female Rottie named Jenny who loved to fly in our Grumman. She’d jump up onto the wingroot, over into the cockpit and settle in the back with her harness and mutt-muffs.. Loved to look at soaring birds and never complained...
10 years later we have a new dog, a Buhund puppy ( looks like a small Elkhound) , named.....Piper ( isn’t that an imaginative name). I got Piper the same week I got the Husky. BTW: Buhunds are very sharp, very aware.
First day I take Piper to the hangar at about 4 months old, she reluctantly goes into the cold dark hangar with this big yellow thing towering over her...walks around it and proceeds to take a “dump” under the right wing, then runs out the door back to the car.
Next time I took her out and lifted her into the Husky’s back seat and you’d think I was butchering her...I never heard her squeal so much. So at that this point I realize she’s never going flying with me... these days she sits in the car with the doors open while I’m in the hangar with no interest in hanging out while I tinker.
So thought that this would be the end of the story until this past Nov. when a friend showed up in a worn, red, straight-tailed 172... while I’m just on the ramp sitting in the left seat “b.s.ing” Piper comes over and almost kills herself trying to get over the wheel failing and up inside the plane. I lift her up, toss her in the back seat and she was happy as a clam...we didn’t fly that day but the way she was acting she was perfectly fine with it.
I figure the answer to my dog / plane problem is to ...ditch the Husky and buy a 172 (NO) ...buy an additional plane (maybe) ....paint the Husky red (maybe it’s the color..naw ...dogs are color blind, right?) ... get a different dog (NO) .... or find a dog shrink (maybe)... I hate to leave her at home.
Chris
