Some funny things have been going on at my house. My people had been putting their things in brown boxes for a while. Fortunately they left my dishes and toys out. My people loaded up my car and trailer and took it away. I had to go visit another dog, so I missed what they did, but when I came home, the car and trailer were empty and my biggest car was gone.
Then a few days ago, they started putting things in the car and trailer again. Now, you need to understand that when the car and trailer go places, so do I. This time, I kept a close eye on events, so I would not be left behind. Then, a man drove a big white truck backwards up the driveway and two other men started taking everything out of our house and putting it in the truck. I inspected the proceedings, thinking I should ride in the truck instead of the car, but I was tied to one of my people, so I could not stop acheive my goal. Someone kept tying me up by the car, but not letting me in it. Then at the end of the day, what joy (as I thought at the time) I was allowed to sit in the front seat of the car and supervise operations. I promptly fell asleep.
When I woke up, all the smells had changed and the house was gone. I had to get back in the car, and we drove and stopped again and again. Each time I stopped, all of my people were there, but not my house or my big car. I was confused. We stopped at a big house and we all slept in the same room. I had a hard time deciding who to sleep with. I jumped from bed to bed a lot. The next day, I had to get in the car again. It was a long day. We stopped and started just like the day before, each time the smells were different, but my people and my other car were there. At the end of the day, I finally was allowed to get out of the car and stay out.
Car rides are not as fun as I thought they were. Then we stayed in a big house that had lots of dogs in it. They were not all in our part of the house though. We had a nice part with several rooms for me to wander in, and a bed to sit on and look out the window. My people kept coming and going, and some lady came in and took our towels. I wonder if I will ever get to see my house again. I am really uncertain about the car ride thing, if this is what it gets me. As payback, I refused to eat anything that does not come from my people's plates.
Then we went to see a pretty house with a nice yard. My people even let me run around in the yard without a leash. It has lots of grass which is fun to roll in and wipe my face around in. My people even started taking their things out of the trailer and bringing them into the house. Sometimes they tied me to a tree in the front yard as if I would run away. Then when the trailer was empty, two of my people drove away. I was bored. My favorite person was working on a door, and I found a delicious green treat in the bottom of a cupboard nearby. I made an exception to the not eating anything that my people were eating rule and I ate it. My favorite person got really excited.. She made a couple of phone calls, then she put me in the car and took me to a place where they fed me some yucky stuff that made me empty my tummy all over the floor. Then they poured some black stuff down my throat that made me really thirsty. They poked me with a needle before they let me see my favorite person again. I am not going back there, no matter what. I guess I should eat my food from my dish after all.
By Shadow
Note from Mom: We have arrived safely, closed escrow and moved all our things out of storage into our house. The moving truck is still scheduled for Tuesday delivery.
What Shadow ate was rat poison that the former owner of the house left out in case she had rats or mice. Shadow will be fine, but she gets to take a pill every day for a month and go back for a checkup when the pills are gone. People should not leave things like that lying around for those of us with small children and dogs. The doctor said I did exactly the right thing bringing her in within an hour of ingesting the poison.
Today I am at the local county library which doubles as a WiFi hotspot. I might even check out a book while I am here. I have signed up for DSL at home which should work sometime later this week.
Yesterday's big news, a big truck on a little street. . .
I had a car in here once, but now all I see is stuff.
Maybe it came from that truck. Now we are busy unpacking boxes. Kind of like Christmas, except nothing is new, and we put it all there ourselves. It is always funny to discover where things were packed, like the remotes for the DVD player and the TV in the box labeled "Kitchen"
