Weekly Posting of the Conservative Cow Doctor

Along For the Ride

Last Friday, I zipped to the ranch to winterize the house. My Aussie pup, Blinker, rode along because that is his job. At the ranch we found nephew, Taylor, attempting to load yearlings into his horse trailer. A snowdrift blocked the loading chute, so he jury-rigged a crowding alley through the only accessible corral gate. Taylor was packing Jack, his one-year-old son, as he shuffled back and forth in the muddy corral. His dog, Bindi, was helping but the yearlings were winning. I hopped from my car to lend a hand and the exciting scene of the yearlings splashing through the mud made Blinker figure he should help too. I knew better, so left him in the car fully aware I was placing my rig’s interior at risk. The rear, middle seat belt became a casualty of dog anxiety a couple months back but for some reason Blinker had never acquired a taste for the outer two. After we loaded the yearlings, I popped the door and Blinker exploded out of the car, and surprisingly both rear seat belts remained intact.

Flushing waterlines took four hours and Blinker matched me step for step from the pump in the basement to the kitchen sink, to the upstairs bathroom and back to the basement. He had no idea what I was doing but he wanted to be part of it just the same. You will never find a more loyal friend than a dog. Many truckers travel with their dogs because it is comforting to have a companion who is as happy to see them at three in the morning as they are at three in the afternoon. Dogs can’t tell time. You may never amount to anything but in your dog’s eyes you will always be a king. Fascism is about to change this man-dog relationship.

The Freedom Convoy plugging Ottawa so infuriated Canada’s pretty, little, prime minister that he seized trucker’s bank accounts plus their trucks and its contents including the furry little copilots. By emergency decree, after eight days, unclaimed dogs will be relinquished with “relinquished” being the mother of all euphemisms.

America’s Freedom Convoys may lay siege to D.C. very shortly. As the ruling elite demonstrated by suspending due process rights of participants in the January 6th velvet-rope rebellion, they will imprison anyone with whom they disagree. Truckers plugging the beltway best expect long incarceration without the benefit of bail or trial and this brings me to my point. Better leave fido at home on this run. You may eventually escape fascist imprisonment, but man’s best friend may not. Be it ten days or ten years, your dog will be excited to see you come home.