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River Dog

A NEW FRIEND

What's the deal, Mom hauls me off last night. Takes me to a place with all kinds of dogs. I want to PLAY! No, she says. You are here to learn to come when I call you and other dogs are around. Why would I want to do that??? I want to play with friends. I live so far away from everyone I don't have any friends. Everytime I try to make a new friend, Mom drags me back. The other night I saw this wonderful brown friend walking in the field behind the house. He called my name! I was running out to meet him, and Dad and Mom started SCREAMING, yes SCREAMING at me to stop. I didn't really feel like stopping, but Mom sounded so SERIOUS. I decided I better stop or she might not take me boating anymore. Next thing I know, Dad has grabbed a GUN! He's shooting, yes BANG BANG, over my new friends head, and he takes off for parts unknown. I can't blame him. I don't understand what the deal was? Why don't they want me to have any friends. I heard Dad tell Mom that the "Coyote" was luring me to him. I guess that was my new friends name. I don't understand though, if they knew him and knew his name, why wouldn't they want me to play with him. Humans are REALLY complicated!. I hope Coyote comes back again.

Treadmill

Well, I never, Mom drags home an exercise unit. Bought it on EBAY. She says it's for ME! What about them? Why Me?
Seems even though I have never had any human food and only eat Hills dry and one teeny, tiny can of Miti Dog each day, some of the people in town have been calling me FAT! I'm not FAT! Maybe a little FLUFFY, but definitely not fat, the vet says so.
But now I have to walk on the treadmill. Dad about had a cow when she brought it home. He keeps saying we have a little house and he could put wheels on the treadmill and drive it to town it's so big! But Mom's not one to be sidetracked from a goal. She said Ceaser, whoever he is, said it would be good for me. Dad said no way I would do it. Well I really like Mom so of course I decided to go along with her. What will she think of next????

Day Two

That day they drove that silver thing right into the river below our cabin. I love this river. I can see the fish swimming in it. I love to chase minnows in the shallows. Anyway, again they asked me to jump in, and of course I did. We went really fast up the river and I rode right up front with my ears flapping in the wind. We pulled onto a gravel bar and met some other humans and my favorite, dogs. We played fetch and chase. After a while I heard Dad saying that the "Boat" seemed low in the water. Then they got really excited and were saying something about a "PLUG". Seems the boat was sinking. They found the plug and then with a funny noise water started streming out of the side of the boat.
Pretty soon we ran really fast back down the river and got back to earth again. Man I love this boating thing. I get to go places I've never been. And I sleep so good after.