[Dailydrool] Snoopy checking in

[Dale Rutz]

Hi all, it's Snoopy here,

I have been through 4 classes so far at my school.  But the stuff they teach I 
already know.  Sit, Down, Leave it, Come .... I know that.  The clueless 
momPerson signed me up because I am socially awkward.  That is to say I ahrooo 
and lung at strange dogs.  The first 3 classes the teacher had a box and if you 
ahrooo then a light comes on the box and your ears hurt.  This last class she 
didn't use the box.  I ahroooo'd.  The Pit Bull barked right back at me.  He's 
huge.  It wasn't pretty.  My class has a full size doberman, an 80 lb Pit, a 
standard Schnauzer, a Golden retriever, a Jack Russel and myself.  I ahrooo'd at 
the doberman too.  So, the teacher sent us each to our own isle in the store to 
practice "come."  But I already knew come.  So momPerson took me to other isles 
to try socializing me.  Some good and some less than good.  If she does nothing 
then I charge up to the other dog and ahrooo.  If they don't cower then I will 
lung too.  NOT good.  So then she tried approaching the other person instead. 
 If the people are talking I wll ignore the other dog.  Then she tried petting 
the other dog.  If she pets the other dog then I will let the other person pet 
me.  We went to the dog park yesterday.  I was ok for a while and then I tried 
demanding the ball a German shepard was playing with and wound up on lead.

At home I have been better.  I hadn't jumped on little Gracie for a couple of 
weeks and then bang, yesterday she got a box off of the counter and I jumped her 
for it.  They had to squirt bottle me off of her.  And then today momPerson was 
sitting in a chair eatting an apple and Grace came between me and momPerson and 
I jumped on her and we were scrapping pretty good .... very loud and neither one 
of us would let go ..... seemed like it was going to be horrible but when they 
got us apart there were no injuried ... no lumps, no bumps, no nicks, no 
scrapes, nada.

Sometimes the clueless momPerson gets discouraged.  I know I am better than I 
was 2 years ago when she adopted me, I know I am.  But I am still the dickens 
and some days my behavior makes her sad.  I have proven to be harmless but she 
says one of these days I am going to give her a heart attack with my antics.

More later from an apparently very naughty Snoopty with LuLu (who takes NOTHING 
off of me) and Gracie (who is starting to stand her ground)
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