I awakened with a start. What had I heard? Oh, it was only Sophie, my German Shepherd dog who sleeps beside my bed. Wait! Sophie! Why was she whining? I leaped out of bed realizing my clock said 6:45 a.m. I usually took her for a walk on the beach by 5 a.m.
We walked outside. She pushed open the garden gate and started for the beach. I followed trying to stop her. Since one of her strides is equal to three of mine, there was no hope of catching her.
I jumped in my car. What else could I do? My dog was taking herself for a walk to the beach.
I pulled up in a parking space watching Sophie run gleefully around on the beach. As soon as I stepped on the beach calling her, a police car pulled up beside me. Sophie immediately ran to me, fearing I was in danger.
Ma’am, get your dog off the beach.”
Sophie barked at the officer. Her bad dog bark.
“Get off the beach with that dog,” he said in a loud, aggressive voice.
“Officer, if you would just give me a………”
What happened next wasn’t very pleasant. Sophie and I ended up looking through the bars of the backseat of a police car.
I was unhappy. The officer was unhappy. But Sophie? She had gotten to defend me from the bad police officer. Now if she can only figure out how to charm us out of jail.
The Write Scribe 
Good girl! I meant Sophie. 🐕
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LOL. She really IS a good girl. It’s terrible that everyone is afraid of German Shepherd dogs. Sophie is a big baby – unless something threatens me!
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Just the kind of dog you want by your side!
When my sister and I were alone one night many years ago, it was our neighbor’s German Shepherd, King, who was on the alert when some perv tried to break into our house. King literally saved our lives.
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They are wonderful dogs and I’m not at all surprised!
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Sophie is an intelligent creature, so maybe she needs her own watch, hmm?
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Maybe so! German Shepherd dogs are so smart and interesting. It’s like having a toddler in the house.
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Love this, Rosemary.
Well not the being shut up in the back of a police car, obviously, but the great depiction of the unbending officer of the law.
No wonder he got her bad dog bark!
In my mind she has already charmed you out of jail – what German Shepherd wouldn’t?
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Absolutely right! Thank you.
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Wow! the police officer sounds a real jerk not giving you the opportunity to explain
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The implication was meant to be that Sophie defended me from the bad police officer because he could ask me to explain! LOL. German Shepherds are like that!
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(when we used to take Ola (our first GSD) to the beach, she’d start pawing at the dashboard when we were still a couple of miles away from the ocean. she loved the beach)
fun story. good looking doggy
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Thanks, Clark. The story was totally fiction, although I do have a GS Dog named Sophie. The funny thing is that she hates water! But she is my best friend and protector. GS dogs are so different than other breeds. It’s like having another person along side you!
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I can feel her excitement at the anticipation of a beach romp, and her shift in mood when trouble arrives. Sophie sounds wonderful. Great story.
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