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An Old Lady's Journey

My scary night!!

Last night mommy and her friend were putting a bunch of our big heavy furniture into the car to start "moving" mommy says. Well, they left the door wide open, as well as the gate so that they could get all the furniture straight from the house to the car. I thought that was very generous of them, and i decided to let myself out. I knew mommy wouldn't be mad because i'm really good about staying close by. Whenever i start exploring i always look around to make sure i can still see mommy, and since i can't see all that well, that means i always stay REALLY close. Well, i decided i wanted to go take a nap, so i went to see mommy and told her so, and she watched me go lie down in the bedroom. Well, i thought i'd be sneaky and play a trick on mommy and i snuck out while she was busy with a big desk! Tee hee, she was so fooled. But then once i was outside, i looked around and i couldn't find her! I didn't know where she went, and how could i have known she'd gone back in the house for more furniture?! So i wandered away thinking she must have gone for a walk without me (how could she?!). I looked all over and walked almost 3 blocks away trying to find her, and i was starting to get scared because it was dark and cold. I went by these other houses and was hoping one of them was my own and some mean little doggy started barking at me from inside. Well, luckily my mommy heard the mean doggy that was yelling at me, and she ran over and found me. I was very relieved, at first i was scared because i didn't know it was her until she got close and i could recognize her! then she picked me up and hugged me and took me back home to my nice warm bed, and i got a treat for being a good dog and not going in the street like i know i'm not s'pose to. It was quite an adventure!! One i don't plan on doing again, (even if mommy WAS willing to let me out of her sight again, which she said she isn't).

Stupid vet and allergies!

Mommy took me to the vet the other day. We were SUPPOSE to be going so that Charlie could get a check-up after his surgery he had this summer. I was suppose to only be along for the ride. BUT NO!! She tricked me and when we got there, i got put on that awful, cold metal table and EXAMINED!!! Mommy said I have skin allergies, and she was trying to make it all better. Well, i'd MUCH rather be itchy all the time than have to suffer through the indignity of the mean old vet groping me! And in the end, all mommy got was some special shampoo (it didn't look all that menacing to me, but mommy was very upset at what she kept saying the "price" was, whatever that means) and some allergy pills. I was all prepared to be VERY picky about the pills, and demand they be placed in something quite yummy, like cheese or sandwich meat, but then I was pleasantly surprised when they turned out to be VERY good indeed! Now i look forward to them each morning before breakfast. So, i guess technically the vet visit wasn't all that horrible, i didn't get a shot or have my temperature taken anyway. (Talk about an invasive indignity!!) But don't tell mommy that, because i certainly plan on putting up a fuss EVERY time we go to the vet, regardless of how painless it may turn out to be! Don't want her to get any ideas bout me being too accomidating. HMPH!