An under-exercised spaniel is a larcenous spaniel

Mar 29, 2012 14:43

During breakfast, Pip kept appearing in the doorway with a succession of stolen items in his mouth, pausing each time to give me that brazen 'wotcha gonna do about it?' look, before wandering off into the living room. I ignored him. By the time I had finished breakfast, there was a large pile of random items on the living room floor; comprising one sock, one boot, several dog towels, one pair of water-proof trousers, and one tea-towel.

I suppose he persists in the attention-seeking behaviour in the hope that he will find the one object guaranteed to provoke attention. The Holy Grail of portable property.

After breakfast, I took him for a long walk around the common, so that he was no longer an under-exercised spaniel. He rolled in badger poo and became a malodorous spaniel instead.

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