Last night, Christopher Robin and I went out to dinner with friends and returned to a couple of dogs who were distinctly guilty looking. Sasha sat right down and licked her lips in classic suck up style to illustrate she had nothing to do with it, no sirree, not her, not the GOOD dog. Jack, never a good liar, slumped around to the shadows on the other side of the couch, his shoulders hunched, chin skimming the floor.
"Uh-oh," I said.
The trash was knocked over. Debris scattered in party fashion from the kitchen to the living room, mostly really disgusting, too, since there were coffee grounds and fruit pieces in there. Anything remotely edible (including the Styrofoam meat tray they’d gone searching for) was gone, of course. I sighed–it was my fault, really, since I forgot to take it out before we left, and they are dogs, after all–and told them to go outside. They slumped through the dog door and waited until the coast was clear and the mess cleaned up before they drunkenly apologized, wiggling around my legs.
Well, that was that, but this morning, I couldn’t find the cooked chicken breast I took out of the freezer for the cat. Gone. It was in a "safe" place, way out of reach of two medium size dogs. But gone it was.
And when I looked out into the backyard to see if they’d taken the plastic bag out there, more of their revelries were scattered all over the lawn. They saw me looking and slid away, melting up stairs. I sighed again and went to find my outside shoes.
Gone. Absolutely disappeared.
Sasha is limping. Jack hasn’t moved off the couch all day. They’re hung over, that’s what it is. I think they had a big party while we were gone and had the neighbor dogs over the fence. A great Dane must have nabbed the chicken breast and they all feasted, and somebody was posing with my shoes and forgot to take them off when they went home.
All this glamour is hard to take, I’ll tell ya.
It’s wizardry, the way you make the mundane meaningful. And entertaining. I have two teenage boys, so I can relate to a rampage. Please keep blogging, I like to visit nearly every day.
Hi, Cindy. Teenage boys and dogs….hmm, interesting corrollary. I do think dogs smell better at least sometimes.
I have a plan for posting more often and oganizing it all a little better. Check back soon.
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Oh, I laughed out loud at that one. My friends, Kate and Gary, have a basset named Pablo. Pablo eats anything that’s not nailed down and he has no shame, none whatsoever. He grabbed my sunglasses from off the countertop one day and made off with them. Imagine three grownups running through the house after a basset (he’s faster than the average basset), shouting and waving their arms. I could tell he thought we were a little kooky. They have to keep all their bathroom doors shut throughout the entire house because he will literally eat the entire roll of toilet paper, after he drags it all over the house, that is. The newspaper, the business journal, and don’t tell me he actually READS them, well, they’re gone if left alone long enough. One day he spent the day at doggie day care and the director actually called Kate because he’d pillaged the garbage can and found a latex glove…the glove has never been located, if you know what I mean….
Yvonne, he was probably at the party at my house! Just the kind of dangerous company they’ve been keeping.
I have a new trashcan, BTW. Solid. I’m waiting for Jack to figure out he can step on the lever and lift the lid.
Exactly! Pablo may have knowledge of your shoes…