If there’s one thing guaranteed to put a dog into an embarrassing position, it’s a penchant for over-enthusiasm. But it takes more than a tumble to keep a good dog down!
The column’s done, my lunch is eaten, and I’d better fold my tent while I still have a tent to fold.
For some reason cats don’t like you to sleep if they’re not sleeping. So here are some cats employing various tactics for waking up their owners.
My cat Henry used to get very upset if the phone rang and we didn’t answer it. You know, sometimes you are engaged in something that simply won’t allow you to go to the phone. But Henry accepted no excuses. “I don’t care what you’re doing! Answer the phone!”
And he used to wake my wife by putting his nose against her eyes.
My cats can’t resist doing this to themselves, although they never, never seem pleased with the result.
I would say this cat had a purpose in walking around with a paper bag over his head, but I can’t imagine what it could have been.
Maybe he writes for Scholastic Books.
This fun tune kept popping into my head all week. I thought I’d like to share it with you.
Okay–if you’re young, a lot of these references to current event of the early 1960s are going to slip right past you. But if you’re not so young, this’ll really bring back memories.
The trouble with topical humor is, it has a very short shelf life. Someday everybody who ever guffawed with Allan Sherman will have died out and everybody who’s left won’t know what the dickens he’s talking about.
But for the time being… oh, boy!