November 15th 2005 2:32 pm
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Sometimes I like to make whale noises when no one's home. I used to bark and howl a lot, and I know it really annoyed the neighbors but I don't care about them. Kit and Katie would record me barking and then play it back and say bad dog to the recorder, and I knew that they didn't like it when dogs barked, but I'd get so worried that I'd forget. Then I realized that I didn't need to bark so much because Katie got me a collar that squirted stinky citronella when I barked. So I figured out how to make noises that the collar didn't recognize, really high and really low frequencies. Imagine the sounds that whales make (I saw it on TV once, I think) and you'll know what I mean. Katie and Kit came home once and heard it and couldn't figure out what was making that sound until one night when I thought they'd left and I started making it. I was so embarrassed.

Now Katie's gone for lots of days at a time with her new job, and I don't bark very much even though the citronella collar broke when I went swimming in it. Now I just make whale sounds and the neighbors can't hear me. But I don't get as worried as I used to, either. I've finally realized that Katie will come home sooner or later.