Hind Sight

I love to go for rides in the car. The woman takes me more often these days. Some days, she likes to torture me. She grabs her purse and acts like she is ready to go, but then, she doesn't. I follow her around and try to remind her that she wants to leave, because I think she forgets.

I run back and forth from her, to the garage door, back to her, back to the door. I even try to tell her but it just comes out like a whine. Still, I whine and whine, trying to say, "let's go!"

Finally, we get in the car and we are off.

Being in the back of the car, I have a disadvantage in that I can only see where we have been. It would be best if I could ride in the front but I tried that once and the woman and sis didn't get it. They worked really hard to pull me from the car even though I was doing my best to show them how much better it was to be in the front.

I would rather go than not go, so, I'll take the back if that is all I can get. The visability is a little poor. I have the back window but the other windows are kind of hard to see out of.

The woman took me with her to go get sis from after-school band the other night and sis took a long time to come out from the band room. The woman rolled down the back windows and I crawled up as close as I could get and I COULD SEE! There were kids walking around and I could see them and even smell them. It was great.

Then, they saw me! They actually went inside and told the other kids inside that there was a white car waiting outside with a dog. Sis recognized the description and came out soon after.

I was so glad to be helpful. I fear that without me, the woman would have waited there all night for sis to finally come out. Just knowing there was a white car was not enough, knowing there was a white car with a dog...well, that clinched it. What are the odds that two white cars would have a dog in it. What would they do without me?

Oh Ye of Little Faith

I keep hearing all the humans that visit the house asking, "Who writes Chico's blog?"

Who do you think is writing it???? And they say humans are smarter than dogs?

Freedom

A rare opportunity reared it's head today for me and I just had to take it. The woman was cleaning off the porch with the door open this morning. I sat just inside the door like a good dog should. She started arranging the flowers in the pots and she was taking such a long time.

All the while, the new dog across the street was taunting me. He kept yapping at me, "Do it! Run, you wont get another chance."

I couldn't let him think I was chicken. I waited until she looked at me sitting so good just inside the door. After I let her see me, she turned her back and I took off. I was so fast, I made it around the corner before she even realized I was gone. Once I was out of sight, I slowed down and started to enjoy myself. Everyone along that street will know that it belongs to me now.

I was afraid the new dog was going to rat me out before I made it away. He was barking...egging me on so. I told him to be quiet but he wouldn't listen.

Anyway, I got all the way to the 4th house up the street before the woman drove up in the car. I thought about ignoring her but I love to ride in the car so much, I couldn't help it. I jumped in and we were back home in no time.

I will remember those 2 minutes for the rest of my life.