My mother is here for the holidays (actually, she's been here since
before Thanksgiving and won't be leaving until the middle of January,
getting out just before the inauguration and its 300-person-per-porta-
potty crowd) and last night we decided to order pizza, something we
almost never do, but no one wanted to actually go out because it was too
cold.

So the pizza guy knocks on the door to deliver the pizza, and of course
Peanut starts barking like crazy, so I handed him to Michael while I
dealt with the pizza guy, and then we closed the door and set the pizzas
down. And Peanut, too.

Peanut started searching the entire apartment, running into each of the
bedrooms, the bathroom, the living room, sniffing at the front door, and
then starting the cycle again. You could almost hear him thinking "I
*know* he's hiding here someplace!" He didn't stop, getting more
frantic, until I squatted in the middle of the kitchen floor, called him
over, and gave him a biscuit. Then he settled down and just watched us
while we ate (checking under the table from time to time in case we
dropped something). But I've never seen anything like the way he was
searching prior to that.
--
Kevin Michael Vail | Dogbert: That's circular reasoning.
* | Dilbert: I prefer to think of it as no loose ends.

Kevin Michael Vail spoke these words of wisdom in
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Peanut started searching the entire apartment, running into each of the
bedrooms, the bathroom, the living room, sniffing at the front door, and
then starting the cycle again. You could almost hear him thinking "I
*know* he's hiding here someplace!" He didn't stop, getting more
frantic, until I squatted in the middle of the kitchen floor, called him
over, and gave him a biscuit. Then he settled down and just watched us
while we ate (checking under the table from time to time in case we
dropped something). But I've never seen anything like the way he was
searching prior to that.

Next time let him see the Pizza guy leave!
heh!

"Kevin Michael Vail" wrote in message
...

Peanut started searching the entire apartment, running into each of
the
bedrooms, the bathroom, the living room, sniffing at the front door,
and
then starting the cycle again. You could almost hear him thinking "I
*know* he's hiding here someplace!"

Poor Peanut! What a mean trick for the pizza guy to play on him,
disappearing into thin air like that.

--
Shelly
http://www.cat-sidh.net (the Mother Ship)
http://esther.cat-sidh.net (Letters to Esther)

On Dec 23, 9:40*pm, diddy none wrote:
Kevin Michael Vail spoke these words of wisdom :

Peanut started searching the entire apartment, running into each of the
bedrooms, the bathroom, the living room, sniffing at the front door, and
then starting the cycle again. *You could almost hear him thinking "I
*know* he's hiding here someplace!" *He didn't stop, getting more
frantic, until I squatted in the middle of the kitchen floor, called him
over, and gave him a biscuit. *Then he settled down and just watched us
while we ate (checking under the table from time to time in case we
dropped something). *But I've never seen anything like the way he was
searching prior to that.

Next time let him see the Pizza guy leave!
heh!

I go out on the porch to deal with the pizza guy.

Poor Peanut...

In article
,
Nessa wrote:

On Dec 23, 9:40*pm, diddy none wrote:
Kevin Michael Vail spoke these words of wisdom
:

Peanut started searching the entire apartment, running into each of the
bedrooms, the bathroom, the living room, sniffing at the front door, and
then starting the cycle again. *You could almost hear him thinking "I
*know* he's hiding here someplace!" *He didn't stop, getting more
frantic, until I squatted in the middle of the kitchen floor, called him
over, and gave him a biscuit. *Then he settled down and just watched us
while we ate (checking under the table from time to time in case we
dropped something). *But I've never seen anything like the way he was
searching prior to that.

Next time let him see the Pizza guy leave!
heh!

I go out on the porch to deal with the pizza guy.

Poor Peanut...

If I had a porch, I'd do that...but I live in a high-rise.

I will make sure he sees the pizza guy leave next time (in two years or
so, which is how long it'll probably be until we order pizza again).
--
Kevin Michael Vail* * | I would rather have a mind opened by wonder
* * * | than one closed by belief. * -- Gerry Spence