[Dailydrool] snoopy checking in

[Dale Rutz]

Hi all, Snoopy here,

I have news.  Big news.  Yesterday LuLu played with a toy.  And with ME.  She 
has mouthed a braided toy from Auntie Wen once or twice but she's never actually 
played tuggy with one.  Ever.  And she has lived here for a YEAR.  And there is 
more.  Much more.  You see, I am what some call socially awkward.  What they 
mean is that I wasn't socialized when I was little.  I mean, I was with my liter 
for a million years, and so my bites are so inhibited I can't even bite when I 
get REALLY, REALLY mad at Gracie so I stand on her and yell bloody murder.  I've 
tried to bite but I just don't have the hang of it and momPerson says its 
because they left me with my liter too long and my bites are inhibited.  But 
after I went to live with my mommy she didn't take me to play with other dogs.  
So when the clueless momPerson pulled me from the shelter at age 5 after mommy 
died and a bunch of other (all bad) stuff happened I was socially awkward.  I 
would play with Cyrus but I would get more and more and more worked up and 
couldn't calm myself back down.  When LuLu came to live with us she would play 
with me and when I got too wound up she would run under Cyrus and stand there 
and dadPerson would say we had a double decker dog.

Cyrus was the biggest, sweetest black lab you'd ever want to meet.  He left us 
for the bridge without prior notice nor arrangement in his sleep on August 1.  
And LuLu hasn't really played with me since.  She and Gracie will play when I'm 
not looking but if I come to join them they both stop.  Because I am socially 
awkward.  But there is BIG news.  REALLY BIG news.  Yesterday momPerson and 
dadPerson were talking in the kitchen and there was a commotion in the living 
room and it went on and on and the clueless momPerson came to investigate and 
LuLu and I were wrestling on the living room floor.  Real gentle.  Taking turns 
rolling half over and jumping up and running around and wrestling.  And then I 
grabbed my best dinosaur and charged down the hall with it and LuLu chased me 
and I came running back and she grabbed a hold of the dinosaur and we played 
tuggy with my best dinosaur in the living room and then we wrestled a little bit 
more and then we were tired and we slowed down and ..... I settled.  And stopped 
hooting and howling.  And sat down.  All by myself.  Well, with LuLu but still.

That is my big news.

More later from Snoopy
with Gracie (who hid the whole time because she is a scaredy cat)
and LuLu (who for once did not have to konk Snoopy to get him to back off)
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