Post-Christmas. The Demolition.

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