<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Bonejour, Miss Polly woofin' in fwom France,<div><br></div><div><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Apple Casual"">Da mum says that
she should not be saying this because in behaviourist school she was taught
that dogs are not intelligent, they don’t think and reason like humans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Okay.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Apple Casual"">Now let me tell you
why my big sis IS intelligent ….`</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Apple Casual"">At the moment we
have our ‘friend’ Mirabelle staying with us.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>I say friend, because da mum thinks that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We just think she’s a nuisance,
stealing our biscuits and sleeping space and bellyrubs and …. <sigh>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Okay, mum, our friend </span><span style="font-family:Wingdings;mso-ascii-font-family:"Apple Casual";mso-hansi-font-family:
"Apple Casual";mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Wingdings"><span style="mso-char-type:symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Wingdings">J</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Apple Casual"">Mirabelle is
ancient, much older than Miss Penny.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>She’s 13 and the ears are starting to go.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>No, they are not frayed around the edges, they just don’t
work as well any more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>What did
you say, mum ?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Ah yes, she’s
going deaf.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>That’s Mirabelle, not
da mum </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Apple Casual"">Mirabelle’s a tad
unfriendly at meal times, that’s what comes of being an only basset, so she is
fed out on the balcony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I eat in
my cage (don’t ask) and Miss Penny, being the only normal one around hère, eats
in the kitchen. Just to set the picture : kitchen door leading to the
balcony is glass. Okay ?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Well, mum did the feeding routine and was surprised to see Miss Penny
did not eat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>After tea it’s
biscuit time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Well, Miss Penny did
NOT want her biscuit !<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Da mum
thinks, Uh huh, looks like a trip to the vet’s tomorrow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>She was starting to get sad
already.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Da mum does tend to react
like that.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Apple Casual"">Anyways, we all
settle down for a nap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Miss Penny
get’s up and checks that Mirabelle is fast asleep and goes back to the kitchen
to claim her tea !<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>What da
mum doesn’t know, of course, is that that nasty Mirabelle swore at Miss Penny
through the window and frightened her … and … because my big sis is so intelligent
she just waited till Mirabelle was asleep and then went back to enjoy her meal
in peace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Now, is that
intelligent, or what ?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Apple Casual"">Lurps to all Miss
Polly<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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