butterflyuk

The dog’s bed is in the corner between the sideboard and the stairs banister. She is so lazy that any treat that is very hard to chew she will not eat. She was checked out by the Vets. (I believe about half of his BMW Sports was bought by the money I hand over to him!) There is nothing wrong with her teeth despite the age. To encourage her to chew (= self cleaning the teeth) I used buy her bones etc. but they just got spread around the lounge as a death trap for the Sickie so I stopped buying them. The last hesitant purchase was the pig’s ears. That pig’s ear disappeared so I thought she accepted it to be worthy of the chewing efforts. No Sir! The said pig’s ear turned up while cleaning from under her duvet in the corner of the sideboard as she watched me.

Later tonight I saw her holding the pig’s ear in her mouth walking around the room. She wouldn’t eat it so I tried playing snatch off game but she wasn’t happy. She went to the stairs a few times but didn’t go down - probably remembered the fall from the last three stairs she had earlier today. It was weird the way she kept going round the room making whining sounds. I thought she is old and going a bit senile.

I had left a pile of papers and files on the floor in a corner near my desk. Suddenly I heard her scratching the papers and she kept looking in my direction as if to see if I was looking. I pretended not to look in the corner as now it dawned on me what she was doing.

So now I have all my papers scratched and scattered about and a pig’s ear hidden under the pile of some files for a rainy day when I forget to feed her! She wouldn't hide it under the duvet because she knew that I knew it.

There was another old lady I had to deal with yesterday - in episode II.