January 2.
Our house is naked. It’s
official. The Christmas Explosion has
become the Christmas Demolition. While
some people wait a week or two into the New Year to take down their
decorations, my human begins the demolition on New Year’s Day. And we of course, have to watch from the
other room – as we are not allowed to “help.”
Ok. Admittedly we DO try to look
in every box, and we, well Paxton tries to eat any wrapping tissue he can
find. So we got to watch. And watch.
Around 4 o’clock, Frodo had had enough.
He wanted supper and he was tired of being sequestered. So he started barking. And barking.
My human kept saying “5 more minutes.”
I think I should have bought her a new watch for Christmas – clearly HER
5 minutes is different from mine.
When we were FINALLY released from our
prison in the front hall, each of us got to go for a little walk. And I engaged in my favorite new sport – snow
drop and roll. I begin with an innocent sniffing of the snow. I gradually bury my nose deeper and deeper IN
the snow. Then I push my whole head into the snow and I begin to roll. My legs
go flying, and I roll back and forth. I
get my leash all tangled, while my human says “Vitkor – you are getting tangled
– stop.” And I don’t. I just roll and roll. And there is NO moving me. The other night when my human took Frodo and
I out for our last nightly pee, I started the drop and roll – and Frodo did
too. So my human had two crazed
dogs. Who would NOT get up. We were getting all tangled. And having a ball. Despite the fact that my human kept telling
us to stop – she WAS also laughing – so we didn’t take her seriously. At all.
I’m not even sure how she did manage to get us back n the house. But by that point, I was REALLY invigorated
from all of that snow. While my human
went to take Pax out, I went downstairs where my human’s Mom was watching
TV. A few minutes later she went
upstairs. She said to my human “What
happened to Viktor? What’s wrong with
him?” My human was surprised and said
“what do you mean? “Well,” her mother
explained, “he came RACING down the stairs, ran past me, went behind the
curtains – where he likes to hide, but didn’t stay then and raced BACK
upstairs. In 2 seconds he was back again
– racing by and doing the same thing. I
figured he was in trouble so he was running away!” Nope.
It was just left over energy from the snow drop and roll.
So I suggest that if you are feeling
sluggish, try my technique! Assuming you
have snow. I don’t think it will be
quite the same in the mud.
Excuse me while I go and try to get into
the DFZ. I see that it is not NEARLY as
secure as when the Christmas tree was there.
I’ll be lying in that sofa any time now….
Have a good one!
©
Linda Wozniak
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