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Too Cool For School

Doggy Doormat

The alpha lady (actually I think from here on in she can be Mum) is REALLY impressed by me - she says I am so used to all the Whippet puppies at my breeders' kennels that I am virtually bomb-proof around children. I never even flinch when the littlest boy is capering around and falling over on me, or hurling himself at me when I am on the floor - not that Mum encourages that sort of behaviour - she send the littlest boy to his room for rough behaviour. But I just love the kids - grownups are creepy dog-eating monsters, but kids are my kind of beasties.

Dog? What Dog?

So people come to the house to visit the Alpha lady and I do my disappearing act - as soon as their foot comes through the doorway I scuttle off to the bedroom. So far no-one has seen any more than a bony grey rump disappearing out of the loungeroom, and people are starting to say that photos of me on the couch and the bed are fakes. At night time it is a different story, because then I sit at the screen door and do 'Hound of the Baskerville' growls at the people walking on the footpath - heh heh heh there is usually a startled squawk and then scared voices saying "what was THAT" as the footseps recede (usually hurriedly) away. Heh heh heh.

Sorting the 'Hood

Well, I have been adopted by an Alpha lady with a big yard and kids and a cat. Not so different to hanging out with all the other Affies and the little Whippets, really - although City is Different to Country! There are huge scary giant people who MIGHT attack and eat me on our walks, although the Alpha lady won't run away with me - she stands there and talks to these people and lets them LOOK at me. So far I just try to hustle right on past everything and get back home ASAP.
Oh - and when I am let out at night she has POSSUMS that hang around her back yard - those things are UNNATURAL and should NOT BE ALLOWED! I growl tremendously and bark my warning bark furiously - Alpha lady comes out and I wait expectantly for her to explode them with her awesome mindpowers: but for some reason we go back inside together and I get to hang out on the bed with her and the kids.