Free To a Good Home

FREE to a good home: year-old puppy of questionable parentage, but is probably half circus clown, half pick-pocket. Housebroken, understands a wide variety of commands, just doesn't always choose to follow them.
Likes: walking in the rain and digging in the mud all over the yard, the taste of shredded paper, pencil lead and shoe liners.

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Purloins socks, is fearless in thunderstorms but frightened of tricycles that the
neighbor kids leave out. Can be quite amusing when he attacks your garden hose- as long as you weren't trying to actually get anything done with it. Likes to drag his half-full water bowl around the kitchen, with the result that it isn't half-full any longer.

Enjoys destroying fences, jumping into gardens and playing tug-of-war with sugar snap pea vines and removing all the nearly-ripe tomatoes to carry around the yard. Eats strawberries right off the vine. Chews the noses off of dog toys and pulls their guts out, mangles frisbees.

Does stay off the furniture, though. Was the most adorable baby you ever saw and is still cute in a scrawny, slobbery, shedding-everywhere sort of way. If you like fluffy tails, he's your guy. Makes funny noises when he yawns, is good at keeping your feet warm at night. Does that eyebrow thing when he dumps a gooey tennis ball in your lap so you can't say "no" to throwing it. When you do, if he can't find it, he looks up in the sky, like perhaps it's hovering up there, waiting to drop.

Still has a really soft fuzzy head and curly hair behind his ears and sometimes actually lets you pet him without slobbering all over you. Has a way of laying on his back with his legs spread out that still cracks me up,  always acts glad to see me when I get home, follows me everywhere– oh hell, I may as well keep the little monster. No one else is going to take him!

Never mind.


Tracy Jul 28th 2010 11:42 am General One Comment Comments RSS

One Response to “Free To a Good Home”

  1. Moo Cowon 15 Mar 2011 at 3:11 am link comment

    perfect description of an angel dog from hell

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