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Wednesday, January 02, 2008
House Guests
For the past several days we have had house guests. Naturally I'm always excited about the prospect of more attention and petting. After all, everyone comes to see me, don't they? However these two just haven't figured it out yet.
I wag my tail and try to be cute. I sniff, nudge and try to stay close. I share my drool and shed fur with them. I greet them with as much excitement as I can muster when they return from a trip or errands. Still they mostly ignore me. I just don't get it. I must say, they always come home with lots of new and interesting smells on them. I smell everything from food, to kids, other people and even other pets.
One evening the nice lady even made cookies. I thought my charms had finally won her over, but no. I wasn't given a single cookie, not one! Finally after days of tremendous effort on my part I was finally given a bit of a Grapefruit as reward for my unwavering devotion. Then I got a bath. Oh well. I guess you have to live through the less pleasant experiences to get the yummy food items.
I was even clean for a little over a day this time too! Thankfully a few rolls in the dirt put the musty smell I love so much back in my fur.
My human and the other human lady even took me for a nice long walk with the scooters. That was great fun. I just love my walks.
On something called "new years eve" the humans trotted outside to watch some pretty fireworks. I wasn't allowed to help. Though the experience must have been thrilling; they were all so wound up and energized after the show. I don't know if it was the fireworks themselves or the accidental burning of a neighbors bush however. On the bright side, the neighbor didn't mind that the burned her bush accidentally and suggested that they aim for the palm tree next time, then gave them some fresh grapefruit from her tree. Humans are truly bizarre creatures. I'll never understand them.
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Yesterday morning my human decided to get up very early in the morning. It was so early the sun wasn't even up yet. I could hardly hold my own head up I was so tired but being the good dog that I am I stuck by her and tried not to doze off while she was eating breakfast.
I tried to curl up on the sofa for a little extra beauty sleep when a car pulled in the drive. I was sent outside and forced to stand there as she let Annie and her human in the house. Finally Annie was released from her leash and I from my "stay". We ran and jumped and wrestled around the back yard while the humans did whatever it is humans do.
Finally we mingle. Humans chat and we dogs sniff. It's wonderful. We started out on the 3 miles walk but the wind was too strong and cold for my human so we turned back and hit up the vendor tables. People petted me and told me how pretty I was everywhere we went.
We met so many people; one even recognized my human from previous events and invited us to another event. We sat and watched a little of the Great Dane Drill Team perform their obedience demonstration but our humans were getting hungry and tired. They would have loved to eat at the event, last year the meal was included in the registration fee, but this year they wanted way too much money to eat so we left.
The humans picked up some hamburgers on the way back to my place and they ate while Annie and I ran amok in the back yard once again.
A few of my friends stopped by the other day. Technically it was a training class but afterwards we were let loose to run and play in my back yard. We ran and jumped until we could hardly breathe. It was wonderful.