Dora-dog, the roving reporter on duty.
The Thoughtful Wanderer has given me the use of his platform to give you my view of the world right now. All I can say is, something is definitely up, and I haven't yet figured out just what it is.
He arrived here at my home quite some time ago, and I am rather surprised that he is still here. Don't get me wrong, as I do enjoy his company, but usually not for this long of a time span. The good news from my point of view, is that I have used this time to my best advantage. After all, it's all about me.
Every day now, he takes me out for my squirrel patrol walk, down to the marina and back home. I have him trained so well, that when I stop to look at a squirrel, he stops as well. I'll make a squirreler out of him yet. He has made substantial improvement so far, but I still need to train him on some of the finer points. He has yet to perfect the stare-up-the-tree-to-look-at-the-squirrel stance, but I'm working on it. Humans are very slow learners after all. As long as he stays, I will have more time to implement my cunning plan.
A second part of my plan is to get him to play one of my favourite games in the back yard. I call it chase-the-bone. I grab the bone, and he tries to take it away from me. He is almost never successful at this task, but he keeps trying. I let him get extremely close to me in order to grab the bone from my mouth, and just when he thinks he's going to be successful, I do a quick duck and weave, and zip right past him. It's great fun, and he seems to enjoy the game as much as I do, in spite of the fact that he rarely if ever gets a hold of the bone. I'm amazed that he hasn't given up after all of this time, but humans can be pretty clueless. I will continue to take advantage while I can, and give him just enough opportunity to grab the bone, so that he will keep on playing the game.
So life has been going pretty good for me for quite some time now, and then the other day this happened. Like I stated in the opening paragraph, something is definitely up.
If memory serves, The Thoughtful Wanderer and I had just come in from the yard after playing another game of chase-the-bone, and the next thing you know, I've got this thing on my head. I wasn't impressed, but the humans seemed to get a laugh at my expense. Apparently, this thing on my head has something to do with a virus, whatever that is.
Thankfully they removed it shortly after the photo was taken, and it was none too soon as far as I was concerned. It's difficult to discern my amazing cuteness when it is covered over in this manner.
So as long as The Thoughtful Wanderer sticks around, I will continue to take advantage of him at every opportunity. The truth be known, I think he rather enjoys my company. And I will continue to try and work out exactly what is going on in the world. The humans are behaving in a strange manner these days.
Dora-dog.
Thanks for your canine point of view, Dora-dog.
grateful for every breath,
Paul
The Thoughtful Wanderer
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