Saturday, December 22, 2007
Temptations of the Cookie

I don't take food from the table. That has been a rule since day one in my humans' house. It's a rule I admit I was slow to learn but over time I've learned to control my animal urges and leave food alone when my human gets called away from her meals. More often than not I'll get a little bit of her meal when she's done anyways and this arrangement has worked out well for the both of us.

That was, until tonight. Call it a moment of weakness. Call it temporary insanity. Call it a release of my inner beast. Whatever it was that made me do it, I apologize.

However in my defense, my human had been sitting at the table munching on cookies for awhile and their sweet aroma wafted down my way, tickling my nose and tantalizing my senses. Now I admit I could have gotten up and walked away from the smell of the baked goodies but I found that I couldn't move. That's right the cookie delights had paralyzed me and I was transfixed on them.

Finally the humans' phone rang. She was called away to her office for a moment. It was my time to strike! Oh what to do. Do I be a good dog and risk not getting even a scrap of a cookie? I had heard her say that the cookies were not good for dogs. Like that's possible. With the possibility of no cookie at all, I knew I was left with only one option. Stealth!!

I lifted that cookie from the table with the grace of an Olympic diver, the speed of an Indy car and the stealth of a professional thief. I didn't leave a single drop of drool on her table, I didn't move her chair, and I didn't displace her napkin or disturb her glass of water. I left no evidence of my thievery except for the obviously lack of the fore mentioned cookie. Damn I'm good.

I quickly headed off to join her in her office to throw off any suspicion.

Upon returning to the kitchen table my human looked at her napkin and then to me. I sat and wagged my tail sweetly while looking at her with the sweetest expression I could muster.

Needless to say she wasn't happy, and I spent the next few minutes across the room in my time out spot while she devoured yet another cookie. Even though I did get caught and was in trouble I must admit, it was totally worth it.

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