Our bad

Oh. My. Gosh.  I have NEVER seen my human so unhappy with us.  We ALL got in trouble the other night.  BIG time. I think it's partly because the snow and ice is getting to her.

Our human went out on Sunday afternoon with her mother – to get some groceries and then they met her sister and went for dinner.  When she got home, she let us all out for a little run around and then gave us our supper.  While we were eating, she went back outside to see if ANY of the 1000 lbs of salt she had thrown on the luge run we call a driveway, had even BEGUN to work.  It appeared that the salt had begun to work – BUT what it now entailed was using a spade type device to chop holes in the 4inch thick ice.  Keep in mind the luge run is like 200 yards long.  For real.

So she started chopping,  and shoveling huge chucks of ice and after about an hour, decided to let us all out while she continued to work.  So she was chopping and sweating and we were walking around and checking things out.  And THEN, Paxton decided there was something cool in the woods.  My human never thought we would take off – because the snow is icy on top –and deep if you break through.  And she never figured Bucket Head would go – the going is too tough for him.  Wrongo.  And of course, we had to follow.  Now Frodo usually doesn’t take off with Pax and I, but he decided to join in the fun.  My human saw what was about to happen, so she started yelling the futile “Treats!!!!  Biscuits!!!!” – which none of us really cared because we had just eaten our dinner.  And off we went.

My human figured we would be back in a minute – and she couldn’t go to follow us – as the place we went was SOLID ice.  So she waited a few minutes.  No dogs. So she called more.  And she rattled our food bowls.  And she called more.  And she opened the garage door.  And even started the car.  I think she figured we would race back and jump in the car.  But no – no dogs came back.  Truth be told – we were all hiding in the woods just watching the proceedings.  That’s what she gets for leaving us home on a Sunday afternoon.

So after a few minutes, she REALLY began to panic.  It was starting to get dark.  So – she got in the car, and crept up the luge run – with the windows rolled down – calling our names.  She got just about up to our neighbor’s driveway – and she spotted me and Frodo.  Frodo started barking at the car.  My human stopped – opened the back door and said, in a rather loud voice “GET IN.”  We happily obliged.  And then out of the woods emerged Bucket Head, slipping and sliding along.  She also ordered him into the vehicle.

She turned the vehicle around and slid back down the luge run and into the garage.  She got out, shut the garage door, opened the car door and said “GET OUT”.   Which we happily did – and we raced into the house.  She then said “I am soooooooo unhappy with you – don’t even LOOK at me for an hour.”

She took a little break by going in the DFZ – and bungee cording herself in.  It was actually a BIT dramatic. We didn’t even ATTEMPT to go in – or to squeak or bark – we knew we had been bad.  But after a few minutes she came back out and I TOTALLY turned on my cute-onizing.  Frodo wagged his tail and let out a little bark.  And Paxton leaned on her as he sat down next to her.  She was over it.  

OK, I admit it.  We WERE bad.  And I guess our human gets upset because she worries something will happen to us.  So we won’t do it again.  At least not ALL of three of us at the same time…

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