Adventures in Dog Walking: What Lies Beneath

Spring is finally upon us and not a minute too soon. This winter has been particular harsh, and spending all of your time chipping poopsicles out of the nearest snow bank can be a bit soul crushing for even the most dedicated of Dog Walkers. As the sun warms, and the snow becomes a fading memory, we enter one of the most amusing times of the year, which we have dubbed “The Season of Discovery”

Each year when the snow, our dog walkers seem to find the strangest and most exotic “treasures” revealed from their wintery tombs. Here’s just a taste of the items we have found over the years:

One of our Cambridge Dog Walkers stumbled upon a running sneaker with the sock still tucked inside , pointed down the street as if the occupant had run right out of his shoe and kept going.

While walking through Newton, one of our dog walkers found what seemed to be the contents of an entire bag of groceries, including a bag of apples, mouthwash, and a tub of margarine, all still inside the brown paper bag. The apples had frozen solid, but the margarine was exactly the same.

A very surprised Somerville dog walker found three bottles of narcotic pain killers. The date on the bottle indicated that they had been hidden in the snow bank near the pharmacy for at least a month. The Pharmacist was happy to take them off our hands.

And perhaps my favorite of all,  while covering a route in Arlington  I found a 10-inch kitchen knife sticking straight up out of the ground where the sidewalk met the road.  I can only speculate that someone had re-purposed it to clean ice off of their car in an early storm, stuck it there to do something else, and then forgot to pick it up.  As I pulled it from it’s wintry prison, I felt vaguely like king Arthur freeing Excalibur.

And so, as you travel your neighborhood sidewalks and street, keep you eyes peeled! You never know what might be peeking from below the snow.