The Pre-Christmas Miracle.

The pre-Christmas miracle.  Yes.  Miracles DO happen.  Although, quite honestly, we canines think every DAY is a miracle.  We’re happy when we get up and we’re happy when our food dish comes out.  We rejoice in simple things – and think that they are quite miraculous.

Humans, on the other hand, wait for something unique and different and exciting to occur – and they call THAT a miracle.  Clearly they need to take OUR view of miracles…it’s a whole lot easier.

But yesterday, we decided to give our human a miracle.  Remember last weekend? And the walk from h#ll?  Where Paxton ended up in the swamp water?  And then needed the marathon bath?  And my human THOUGHT she lost her cell phone?  Because she had taken ALL three of us on a walk TOGETHER?  Well.  She decided to try it again…

She got up early on Sunday.  First – she got our food bowls ready, but didn’t feed us.   I thought Frodo and I were going to LOSE our minds.  We stood there – barking with every fiber of our being – trying to convince our human that we NEEDED the sustenance in order to be able to run.  Our human had a different idea – if we were hungry enough, we would all COME back home. So she did NOT feed us.

Then all the bells and leashes were put on – and we headed out – with the cell phone ZIPPED in her jacket. Basically, a rerun of last weekend.

But this weekend was different.  It was a PERFECT walk.  Absolutely PERFECT.  We stayed close when we were off leash.  Well – except for a FEW minutes when Paxton took off in the woods.  And of course I followed him.  As I’ve said before, my human thinks he runs away to get away from us.  But of course I CANNOT let that happen.  But we were not gone long – and we even came back when it was time to put on our leashes.  Frodo never strayed far – the ground was wet, so he carefully trotted alongside our human the whole time, trying to avoid every puddle.  Whimp.

Anyway, when we got back to our driveway, our human took our leashes off and we RACED down the long driveway to the front door.  Frodo stood there and barked while I sat and stared at the door – willing it to open so I could get at those food dishes.

Waiting at the door...

 It was the perfect ending to a great walk.  No one needed a bath.  No phones or car keys or house keys were lost.  No one ran away.  We didn't bark at any neighbors.  We didn't run into any ATVs.  It didn’t rain on us.  It was a perfectly  miraculous morning…and I think our human would agree.  

I hope YOUR day is equally miraculous - in  every way!

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