[Dailydrool] Otis and Laundry

[Linda]

Otis had a fun burfday yesterday. He OEBEd for me too. Then after 
dinner, when I presented the special frozen frosty paws concoctions, 
Otis could not get any leverage on his, so he licked it around and 
around his food bowl, until it was finally gone. Took him almost 10 
minutes--a new record for longest eating (for him). Our cat Ollie sat by 
and watched him, and his head went round and round watching, in sync 
with Otis's, so many times that he must have been dizzy.

Our dear departed Kezzy was such a laundry basset, she was called by my 
then-young kids and their friends, El Farfo (or Elf Arf-o) the Laundry 
Dog. She would carry things to the laundry basket on command, and fetch 
them, too, though she did not discriminate between socks and other 
items. We had no idea at the time what an unusually obedient basset she was.
Our kitty, Ollie, regularly finds one sock each AM and drags it, loudly 
merowling, down the stairs to drop it at my my feet. It is his mouse, I 
think.
Otis loves to roll in fresh laundry and help fold. Then he grabs a pair 
of socks (or larger if really excited) and runs basset 500. Nelly only 
chases after him, but has no interest in catching the socks; she does 
not do laundry.
Linda, with the Burfday Boy and Nell