Tutu is four years old, with a large head and a thick neck, protruding chest muscles, and a typical inverted triangular body shape, weighing more than a hundred pounds. There are always a hundred and ten large and small dogs in the yard and in the surrounding area, and Tutu is the king of indisputable. As soon as he appeared, the other dogs would scatter, only to hide in the distance and bark wildly. Tutu was not ostentatious, silently looking at Zhang, continuing to drag his tiger-like thick tail horizontally, and walking slowly with the tiger's stride without hurrying or slowing down. At this time, as his master, he will suddenly have a glory of flaunting his might, and he will also feel empathy, and there will be a sense of loneliness in the high places.
Tutu
Tutu always had one ear upright, one ear hunched over his huge head, the coat on his body and head was dark, gradually transitioning from the legs down to light brown, and the legs were basically brown with sparse black threads. People who understand dogs will talk around him, this dog is not a purebred Labrador, it should be a mixture of Labrador and German Shepherd "Black Back", a professional look, which is not credible. It is also said that the string of Italian mastiff Kaslo and "black back" looks like Labrador, but in fact has nothing to do with Labrador. I still like to classify him as Labrador, which adds a bit of intimacy.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was nowhere to go but to stay at home in Beijing. Fortunately, across the street from home is a boundless forest, and every afternoon, with Tutu, he crosses the road, drills into the woods, unties the reins, and I wander freely in the forest. As soon as he entered the forest, he became busy, tirelessly smelling the arches here and there on the ground, and it seemed that there was always an inexhaustible treasure. Whenever he sniffed around a tree repeatedly, he would know that his next action must be to lift one of his hind legs on the trunk, spill a bubble of yellow urine, and sprinkle all the way, although there may be only one drop later, and he will repeat it indomitably.
When he was busy, I relived the ancient poems that I had memorized in the past, "Sleepwalking in Heaven and Staying Away", "Preface to the Tengwang Pavilion", "Short Song Line", "Mulan Ci", "Afang Gongfu", "Yueyang Louji", "Burrow Ming... For more than an hour a day, memorize a long poem or ancient text and lead Tutu home.
As the days passed, the company of Tutu and Shifu greatly alleviated my fear of the virus flying in the air, my concern for my loved ones who had fallen into Jiangcheng, and my anxiety about the deteriorating eyesight of My Son, who was staring at the computer screen all day.
Tutu has a gentle temperament and never attacks people, even if you tease him with an attacking action at the first sight of him, he will meekly lie on the ground and look at you pitifully. Seeing this, you will no longer be able to bear to scare him. Tutu's appearance is indeed very powerful, and when he first saw him, a cool breeze would go straight to his back.
One day, I was walking through the forest with Tutu, and when I didn't pay attention, the dog was gone. Looking around, I saw a man in the distance peeing on a large tree, and Tutu was circling around him. The man was very nervous, and estimated that he would hold back half of the urine. Tutu was not in a hurry, came to a neighboring tree, lifted one leg and peed. A man, a male dog, peeing on two trees side by side at the same time, you look at me, I look at you. Seeing this scene, I couldn't help but laugh. After peeing, the man walked over to Tutu, crouched down, and happily touched Tutu's head. Tutu meekly let him stroke it, wagging his tail happily. Pingshui can urinate with each other, which is also a kind of fate.
Another time, a gentleman in front of me was singing passionately to the mobile phone: "As long as that brother you wait patiently..." Tutu walked over, circled around in front of him, sat down, looked up and listened carefully. I followed suit, and when I was almost behind him, he had just finished singing. He turned around, smiled and said to me, "I could have scored 100 points, but as soon as he sat down here, I only got 70 points." His humor made me laugh, and he laughed happily. It turned out that he was practicing his voice with the online singing scoring system, and he saw Tutu sitting in front of him and went out of tune. "But no dog has ever listened to me sing so seriously." His pride was palpable. (To be continued)
Never before has a dog listened to me sing so seriously