If you have a dog, and you like to work out at home, I probably don’t need to tell you the rest of this story. You know exactly what’s coming, likely because you experience it every day, and possibly even have your own videos to prove it. Interrupting their humans while exercising is a treasured pastime of many pets. Given the collective personality of cats, one might suspect that these are the furbabies doling out most of the distractions. It’s not all catnip and toppled water glasses you know; they love to get right up into their fur parents business too. An internet search of “cats interrupting exercise” will yield about 705,000 results. Impressive, and during this pandemic good for a solid 1.5 days of entertainment. But how many results does a search for “dogs interrupting exercise” offer? A whopping 4,780,000. That’s right, dogs absolutely have the market cornered on ruining your workout. But like I said: if you have a doggo of your own, you probably didn’t need me telling you that.
Dog vs. Workout
Bianca Pascal is one dog mom who understands all too well what we’re talking about here. Her Instagram account is filled with evidence that her big fluffy golden retriever is one such exercise interrupter. As you’re probably already aware, there is a large mental component to working out. And many folks think of the barriers in our own mind as being the biggest hurdles here, but that’s because they’ve never tried working out with an overzealous doggo. Who just wants to be loved. Now please, Mommy.
In a hilarious video she recently posted to her Instagram account, we feel Bianca’s pain as she tries nearly every trick in the book to get her lovey fluffball to just stop bothering her long enough to get a few crunches in. Sometimes he lets her do a few moves before interrupting, and sometimes he’s lying exactly where she is meant to be and no amount of coaxing seems to speed things along.
Check out the video here:
There is a school of thought that suggests dogs know not what they do… they’re just not especially crafty. They don’t plot or scheme like their feline counterparts. They’re just derpy fluffballs who want love and attention. But anyone who knows and loves a dog, knows that’s a lie… dogs know exactly what they’re doing! Not that they are doing it to intentionally annoy. Dogs do it because they’re fun, and their humans are fun when rolling around on the ground… exactly like they love to do. I think they just think we’ve finally come to our senses and learned how to play.
