<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">My boys are not without feelings, but generally they have a sense of righteous indignation which they roll out any time they are corrected for anything. HOW DARE YOU?? They glare at me. YOU left the plate right there. What did you think would happen, you silly person?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">But Merta Lou is new and young and not yet used to me, I guess, and as her delicate little lips stretched longlingly toward the plate with the Pork Tenderloin medallions on it I bellowed ARRGH-- not even as loudly as I would, say for Conley, who would have had it by then anyway.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Oh dear! Little Miss dropped to the floor and skittered out of the kitchen, ears flat and tail flatter, into the other room where she dashed into the safest place she knows-- Doc's crate. (he was outside.) Uh oh.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">After about 10 minutes she crept out and ran to the living room where she huddled in a corner of the couch.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Eventually I had time to apologize, to coax and cuddle and pet and reassure.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">I feel like sh-t, just totally. I will spend days apologizing to a dog.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">MomPerson (not a good one, either) to conley, Doc and Merta Lou.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><a href="mailto:bgszap2@gmail.com">bgszap2@gmail.com</a><br clear="all"></div><div></div>
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