Dumb dogs are easier to take care of than smart dogs. When you leave a dumb dog home alone, the dog
just lies down and waits for their people to get back. When you leave a smart dog home alone, the
dog looks around to see what kind of trouble it can get into like, “Gee, I
wonder what that table would look like with three legs.”
I have a friend who has a Newfoundland dog named Martha.
They left her alone this past Christmas and she decided to eat the gingerbread
house that had taken the kids six hours to build. They found gingerbread crumbs
on every bed in the house; Martha had had a great time. After eating the spicy
housing material, Martha was thirsty and cleaned out her water bowl and both
toilets.
Guess what?
Martha decided she needed to relieve herself all over the
house. Knowing that she was already in deep trouble, I think Martha said, “What
the heck?” and went into the diaper pail and deposited a soiled diaper in every
room of the house.
Talk about being in the dog house - Martha is in so much
trouble!
Give me a dumb dog every time.
We had a Cocker Spaniel named Sally. Cockers are a notoriously dumb breed. Sally lived up to her forefathers quite well
except for several flashes of brilliance.
For one thing, she was an infamous escape artist and once
she got out she was really hard to corral.
We would let her out into the most impenetrable back yards you ever saw
and she would find a way out.
Once she was out, she was awfully hard to catch. We had to resort to trickery! You see, Sally loved to ride in cars almost
more than anything else. So, when she
got out, rather than trying to catch or call her which would do no good, we
simple drove the car around and opened the door and yelled, “Sally, want to go
for a ride?”
Worked every time!
We had just moved into a new neighborhood of duplexes that
was only about five percent full. One of
our cats hadn’t been home for a couple of days and we were sure that a fisher cat
had got ton her. My parents were
visiting from Florida and we had just sat down for dinner when Sally scratched
on the front door to be let in. My wife
volunteered me to go let her in and I gladly opened the front door.
Instead of coming in, Sally started backing up like Lassie. Instead of saying, “What is it girl?” like
Timmy would have said, I said, “Do you want to come in or not?” I closed the door and went back to eat.
When Sally scratched at the door again, my wife gave me one
of those looks. I said, “She doesn’t
want to come in.” My wife got up and
went to let Sally in.
The next thing I know, my wife is following Sally across an
empty field to an empty duplex. Someone
had broken the basement window and out cat had decided to jump through. The problem was that she couldn’t jump back
up the six feet to the broken window; there she was, sitting upstairs in the picture
window wondering why we didn’t unlock the front door and let her out.
I was wondering the same thing myself.
Eventually, I lowered myself through the broken window down
into the basement and went upstairs to let our lost cat out. But, I wasn’t the
hero.
Sally the Wonder dog had saved the day.
I remember crying the day she died; I still miss
her so much.*****
