by julie martin
Jeffery, my wonderful shepard/malamute/wolf(?)mix, along with Charlotte, a beagle friend of his, played a game with the clothes I hung out to line dry! I caught onto their strategy, soon. Jeffery didn't rip clothes off unless? ...One day, I looked out my window and caught the whole senerio unfolding. Charlotte had come to visit Jeffery, laying in the sun, content with nawing on a favorite bone. They did their greeting thing, tails wagging, snouts sniffing. Charlotte then ran with eagar intetions, towards the clothes line and made a great but failed attempt to pull off a certain shirt between two pairs of jeans. She gave it her best
"jump,grab and snag" but no prize. Jeffery watched her attempt and then it was his turn. He ran and was successful in snagging the shirt from the line and then they ran around the yard playing tug-o-war type games. They were having a blast...But i also became enlightend watching their rolic. I had solved the mystery of who and why lots of clothes would be muddy or have large holes in them or just disappeared totally:-) The female of any species seems to be much more convincing and manipulative force, over the male. I'll just call it GIRL POWER with a hint of stratagy!! Here's my human interpretation of their conversation-> (as a human's interpretation , it's got to be real comedy ??!!) Charlotte: Hi you big boy! Want to have some fun?! ...Jeffery: yea, ok what?...Charlotte: Let's play slam rip with those people things hanging off that line. I'll show you how,watch this! (she runs ,jumps and grabbs the end of the shirt in her mouth but gravity gets the best of her short stature) Oh shit, you know it's because i'm a small girl and have these short legs, ok your turn Jeffery,try it!! Jeffery thinks about it,..."HUMM" I guess she (me)must hang them here for us to play cool games. We always plays fun games,but she's always in a hurry when she hangs these things out here so she probably hasn't had time to show me this new game". 'Ok, Charlotte here I come, yeah!!!**'. Jeffery took a springboard bound and ripped the whole shirt and part of the jeans off the line. FUN FUN FUN :-) When I came out, those two were tugging that shirt everywhere. I had to intervine and explain that what they thought was a "fun game" were our clothes. I also gave Jeffery a'heart to heart'reguarding his friend,Charlotte. I told him a bit about the "oh poor me" line that Charlotte seemed to use on him. I hoped he understood, being that he was a smart, wonderful life-loving guy at heart, that those things he was tearing off the line WERE our clothes!!! He did-untill I saw Charlotte coercing him, once again, into helping her so that they could play that "jump rip " game that I associate with what we (humans) play, "one on One" slam dunk. This could very well come close to "Frizbee catch" for humans. The new 'X-games' for bipeds and their friends, the animals, who want only to live with us and join in nature. Charlotte and Jeffery enjoy life. Nice story:)
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