Home Office Chronicals 7

 Be forewarned: This is a "Dog Story"

Two Green Grapes

Pogo, our big Dalmatian, has been walking around the front steps for some time now with 2 green grapes between his front teeth. He's holding them sticking out just as far as he can without dropping them for the sole purpose of tormenting Sugar, our Samoyed Husky. Pogo knows that green grapes stolen from the garden are Sugar’s favorite snack and Sugar, being the very intelligent animal that she is, knows that these two grapes in Pogo’s lips are the very best two green grapes from the entire garden and so there is just no reason to go get her own two green grapes --she must have those two green grapes. Pogo is making sure the two green grapes are always in Sugar’s sight. He stays right in front of her. She turns away; he circles in front of her. She lies down; he drops his head so she can still see the grapes without lifting hers. She wanders over to the pond to get a drink; he dips his head down next to her without getting his grapes wet. This goes on for some time until finally Pogo spots a cottontail, drops the now forgotten grapes and runs after it. Sugar saunters over and picks up the two green grapes but doesn’t eat them. She holds them between her front paws waiting for Pogo to return…

(...actually, grapes are very bad for dogs so we keep the dogs out of the fenced garden. Pogo managed to pick these through the fence. He doesn't like grapes but he knows Sugar does)