Stand Your Ground

There I was with multiple bags of groceries in both hands as I struggled to unlock our front door. Without any warning at the exact moment I began to open the front door a large dog came out of nowhere from behind me. Apparently he was roaming the staircase. No owner and no leash! The large dog busted his way in front of me and into our living room he arrived before I could blink my eyes. My eyes immediately did a turbo speed scan of the room to locate my fur babies and assess the amount of danger they were in. Cody was off in a far corner sleeping and the intruder beast was not heading in his direction. As I scanned the room for Piper I carelessly dropped the groceries while I was tripping over myself to catch up to the big dog. Usual Piper fashion is for her to be rather fast to make her way to the front door when she hears it opening. Sure enough as the big dog turned to head towards our dining/kitchen areas Piper came around the corner from the kitchen. She was moving at typical hyper-Piper speed when she instantly put the brakes on as her gaze met the gaze of a big dog she'd never seen before. She's used to pugs and anything in that general size category. Her cousin is a dachshund and her aunt is a chihuahua. A beast of this size is a first for her.

I hate to say this but my mind was forced to suddenly imagine the worst as I began to watch the scene play out. What my mind was imagining was a soon to be gruesome scene with this dog attacking my sweet cat-daughter. I was set on preventing anything terrible from happening, obviously. As the uninvited beast went closer to Piper, I was of course thinking she's smart enough to run, and she certainly has the gift of speed. I then loudly tell her to run. As the large dog gets closer to my cat-daughter and I appear to be running after this dog in slow motion, I'm completely astonished at Piper's response. Did she turn to run? Nope. She showed no fear. I mean, NO FEAR. She simply stood her ground! Her eyes and expression read, "this is my house, and my mom is about to bust you up if you touch me". Next thing I know my husband is running up the stairs as he heard the commotion that was coming from our apartment. Brad took over the duties of grabbing the big beastly dog and escorting him out of our house. While I picked up Piper, whom was more calm than her mommie.

Piper is quite the cat! She is sweet, sensitive, loving, and apparently not afraid to stand her ground when nose to nose with a big dog she's never seen before. Somewhere in heaven Simon was looking down at his little sister today and was quite pleased I'm sure as he watched that scene play out. He likely puffed up his chest and thought to himself, "I taught her that!" LOL!