[Dailydrool] Miss Angela is stubborn and irate

[Esther Strom]

Oh, Angela would HATE living with me. Basil gets fed at 7 AM and 7 PM. I
leave for work at 7:30, and don't get home until 6:30, so I'm not just
being stubborn. I do think if I were to get home and feed him earlier in
the evening, he'd just be hungry again around bedtime.

-Esther, Basil (who is not starving), and Waldo ATB


On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 9:44 AM, <bjenk1 at cox.net> wrote:

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> Bill here, press agent/personal trainer (emeritus) to Miss Angela Basset,
> Droop and Drool Diva of Wichita and Sedgwick County
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> I know not how other hounds are taking it, but Miss Angela has determined
> not to recognize the end of Daylight Savings Time.  In the past , she has
> complained a bit but quickly fallen into a slightly new schedule.  Not this
> year.  She begins her day at about 7 (the old 8) by coming into my bedroom
> to see if I have overslept.  She settles by the bed and makes noises,
> subtle
> at first (shaking her head to flap her ears, licking her lips, etc) and,
> when
> that has no effect (well, it does wake me up but I too am stubborn) she
> starts the whimpering of a long suffering faithful pet on the brink of
> starvat-
> ion.  That gets louder and louder until I finally get up and let her out.
>  I try
> to delay a bit giving her breakfast.
>
> In the afternoon, about 4 o'clock, (five by her reckoning according to the
> old
> time) she begins to interrupt Jeopardy by whining and starting toward the
> kitchen.  She will do this several times, just to make sure that I notice
> her.
> Then, seeing no reaction, she may hop up next to me on the couch and
> just stare at me with those beseeching eyes.  A half hour or so later, she
> hops down and begins again.  By 5, she is emphatically making her point
> about my cruelty by barking.  Now, she knows that she doesn't get fed until
> after the local weather (about 5:20) but she makes life difficult until I
> finally
> ask if she is ready for supper.  Then she watches closely to make sure that
> I am not making idle conversation, then walks me to the kitchen.  When I
> get there, I see that she has not finished her dry food from the morning so
> I am sure that she is not risking starvation, but I proceed to give her
> fresh
> water, top up the  dry food and open a can to give her her twice daily half
> can of wet food.  Then I go back to the local news and she follows in about
> a half minute, streaming water from her ears and breath smelling strongly
> of wet food.
>
> If I go into the kitchen at any other time, she is right there, making
> sure that
> I know that she would forgive me if I fed at an unusual time.  I often
> give her
> a little rawhide chew which she takes to her special place to devour.
>
> It is interesting working for a diva.
>
> Bill  (time to go to class)
> Angela (really, I could use a snack if you could manage it)
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