Zeeke comes with for a daily car ride with me every lunch to visit daddy at work. Bf works for the air national guard, and surprizingly no one seems to care that we bring the dog into the buildings. In fact, most people say “OH, what a beautiful dog, what’s his name??” hehehe. By now Zeeke knows exactly where daddy’s office is and will pretty much drag me down the hall and into the room. We close the door and let him run around bf’s office room while we eat - but we cover the garbage can and put down a bowl of water for him.

First funny thing - today Zeeke runs into the office and, after greeting daddy, stands in the attached lab room and starts barking. I say “I think he wants some water.” Den walks into that room and hunts for the plastic bowl we use as a water dish. Zeeke staring intently at every sound, wagging his tail. When the tap turned on, Zeeke sat politely and licked his lips. He knew exactly what he wanted, where that water came from, and who needed to go get it, lol!!

So anyway, we took off the leash and let him loose in that room. I had to sneak out to get a drink from the fountain for myself, Zeeke sat as I opened the door, I was just getting myself through the door when Zeeke got up and bolted through the door and down the hall.

Now, see the thing is, it was a monday when no one was in except the bf - he went in to get some extra work done. The building was completely empty, except for us, so there’s no one for Zeeke to bother and no way for him to get out. So both bf and I just rolled our eyes and waited for Zeeke to come back.

First thing Zeeke does is make a beeline down the linolium-floored hallway to the end, then attempt to take a sharp right, slide and skid almost into the wall, and then take off down the hallway out of sight. I waited, then called, “Oh Zeekie! Zeekie, where aareee yoouuu?” A blurred shepherd body goes shooting across the hall halfway down the corridor and down another side hallway. You know those movies where there’s a long hall and people are running back and forth from room to room? That’s exactly what it looked like. I cracked up so bad. Then I finally grabbed a piece of donut and called “Zeeke, COME!” A head appeared around the corner. He looked at me, then looked down the hall to where the door is as if to say “Come ON mom!!” But I called again and he did a scooby-doo going from 0 to 60 in .2 seconds, except on linolium he just runs in place for a few seconds, before shooting down the hall towards me and crashing into my legs (he also can’t stop on linolium).

I just have to say… what a FREAK!! But it was so freaking funny to see him sliding back and forth, zooming down the halls practically yelling “I’m FREEEEE!” I almost let him back out just to run around again - but I didn’t know if I’d get lucky a second time to have him actually come when I called.