I will try and post a photo to go with this post later.
So I have 2 dogs. One, Scooby, is a Great Dane/Rhodesian Ridgeback mix. We got him from the shelter and he is the biggest love in the world. I’ve posted before that he’s my “soul dog”, a canine version of a soul mate. He has been and always will be my dog. And he’s big! He can look me in the eye when he stands on his hind legs and I’m 5’9″.
We also have Daphne, a Jack Russell sized, Heinz 57 mix dog. She is all attitude! She loves her family unconditionally, but she has a one track mind and half the time that track is playing with a ball, the other half of the time it’s on finding and/or eating food.
Now that you know about the dogs, let me share what happened today. I had run around the corner to the store to pick up the fixins for spaghetti. When I pulled into the driveway I saw 3 smaller utility pick-ups pick up speed heading in my direction and they pull up in front of the house. One of the guys is at my car door before I can even open it.
I open it and ask what is up. The first gentleman shows me his ID and indicates that he is from Southwest Gas and that they are install digital meter readers on all the meters in the neighborhood. He says that they were there about 10 minutes earlier and while the big brown dog wouldn’t let them anywhere near the gate, it was the little black one that scared the shit out of them.
I laughed as I had the dogs come back in the house and locked them in. As I was opening the gate for the guys I explained that the dogs were really sweethearts if you are introduced to them the right way…like through the front door! And the first guys makes some sort of comment along the lines of, “yeah, tell that to my underwear”. I was howling and these 3 guys got that meter thing changed out in record time.
And here I was convinced that Scooby and Daphne’s idea of protecting the house was licking people to death. I knew they were good at alerting us to strangers outside and I guess I wasn’t giving them enough credit for being willing to really protect us.
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