WHAT: One Ceiling Fan/Light Remote
HOW: When you live with a canine Cuisinart, eventually you learn three things:
- Never leave anything on the floor, or the sofa, or the lower shelves of your bookcases—in fact, if the item is at bulldog eye level, you might as well just say goodbye.
- Closing the door to a room seems to offer some protection to items in that room, but only if the door is tightly latched. Otherwise the bulldog will chuckle softly at your foolishness.
- Houseguests don’t really believe you when you tell them all this.
HOUSEGUEST NO. 1: I told him not to leave it there!
HOUSEGUEST NO. 2: She did not! (turns to Houseguest No. 1) And if you saw it, how come you didn’t pick it up?
HUBBY: (looking very stern) You left something on the floor, didn’t you?
BONNIE: Oh, no! Your book? Your shoe? Your cell phone? Omigosh, it wasn’t your wedding ring, was it?
HOUSEGUEST NO. 1: Nothing of ours, we’re sorry to say. (reveals the mangled remote) We’ll pay to replace it, of course.
HOUSEGUEST NO. 2: Yes, we will replace it!
(Bonnie starts to protest but Hubby raises his hand)
HUBBY: This is a very serious matter. You could have killed my dog.
(houseguests look stricken)
HUBBY: Mojo?
MOJO: (snorts) Snort!
HUBBY: He’s alive! He survived our houseguests! (turns to houseguests) You’re off the hook.
REPLACEMENT COST: None, because it still works.
In our Sunday paper, I happened to pick up the comics, and saw a strip “Mutts”. I looked for it today online, but couldn’t find it, but the gist was the two dogs finding a couple of Christmas gifts under a bed. Immediately thought of your mojo posts.
Ah, try thislink
Bonnie – my pup has been finding things I didn’t know we had, to tear up. when did we get that now mangle toy? I feel your pain and so will the pup when she’s trying to pass Han Solo’s foot later =)
When our first greyhound went through the chewing phase, we started spraying stuff with doggie repellant. Then one day he chewed up the bottle of repellant.
Michael, we love Mutts. Do you ever read Get Fuzzy? Our cats are named after characters in those strips.
Dennie and Pat: Mojo says your dogs have excellent taste.
That’s priceless Bonnie….’Tis the season for tinsel….You haven’t lived until you’ve chased a dog around the living room with a paper towel, trying to grab onto the tinsel hanging out of his butt!!!!
I love Get Fuzzy, its my fav cartoon strip, Bucky is soooooooooooooooooo evil..you can’t help but love him!
Christmas morning must be a real treat in your house Bonnie. Just where do those Christmas presents go if they’re not under the tree??
Dear Bonnie C.: I have lived.
Dear Michelle, right now they’re on the dining room table. The boys have made a Bulldog Barricade (out of furniture) around the tree, to prove we can keep our gifts safely on the floor, but Mojo’s already pulled off several ornaments.
I still say a parrot would be better. Or a toothless Mojo. 😉