Mac the Kleptomaniac
My dog is a klepto. My SSI check came a day early ( my mail carrier is so sweet! More on that later). So my mom took a half day from work and came over to run me to the bank. I really didn't think my bank would cash it a day early because it had the 1st on it. But they did woohoo. So I decided to just spend the week at my mom's even though I spent the weekend over here. So I hadn't had breakfast yet, and it was going on lunch time so we went to Wal-Mart because my mom needed some yarn, and I was lending her some money until Friday. We couldn't figure out what we wanted by the time we got to Wal-Mart so we went to the Mickey D's in WM. Then we got my mom's yarn and we couldn't find a certain color so we drove to a Michael's craft store to look. No such luck.
There was a Petco next door to the Michael's so I went in there because my mom needed some dog toe nail clippers for her Boston Terrier. We are looking around and Mac starts having the farts of dOOm which usually means he's on the verge of making a big mess. So I hurried to the front and told my mom and she's like "I'm out of here." She doesn't like to be around when dogs have accidents in stores (not that she's ever been around when Mac has had one) "THANKS MOM!" I holler as she makes for the front entrance. I'm thinking okay no people in line I can get in and out of here quick. I get up to the front and there are these people taking FOREVER to use the debit card machine. I mean what in the world is so difficult about sliding your card? Grrr. So I'm standing there thinking my dog is on the verge of crapping in the store and I hear this "Excuse me miss?" I'm thinking "Oh lord." So I turn around and the guy behind me said "Your dog is eating something" I look down and there was this display of organic dog bones like right on the bottom shelf and Mac helped himself to two of them and was chowing down. I felt mortified. So I picked up the labels that Mac had spat out, and I laid them on the counter and the checker looks at me and then he looks at Mac sitting next to me oh so happily, and then he starts laughing. I couldn't help it, I was mad at first but I too started laughing.
So I get in the car and I tell my mom that her grandogs is a kleptomaniac. She goes "Oh god what did he steal?" I handed her the wrappers and I told her what happened and she too started laughing.
I was kind of mad and you'd think that it was all Mac's fault, but it wasn't really. The store had put these bones on the bottom shelf, and to me in a pet store where there are pets coming and going the bottom shelf for an out of package bone isn't smart. So I hope that they'll move the display in the future.
So then we came home. We watched Marley & Me, and I laughed so hard during most of it, and then I cried super hard during the last part of it. I remembered imafarmgirl 's Ricky, and I cried some more. After the movie was over I wanted nothing but to hold my Lila so I went over to the couch and got my 75 pound lumpy bumpy girl into a bear hug, buried my face in her fur, and had a good cry. It's a hard movie to watch in the end, but it was really really good.
That is all