Tuesday, November 13, 2012

The Almost Perfect Dog


We love our Annie, one of the world’s best dogs.


She never gets on the furniture. She never begs at the table and never has stolen a morsel of food. She never has an accident. She sleeps beside our bed and would fight to defend us. When we leave the house she rushes out ahead of us to warn off any would-be attackers. She will tolerate anything the children do to her.



Dennis wishes Annie would play Frisbee, but she thinks it a silly game. She will return it once, but if you throw the Frisbee away again, that’s your problem.

I would change only one thing about Annie if I could. She is a fur manufacturing plant and sheds copiously. Now that Kazak is gone, Annie lives in the house. Every day I brush her with the Furminator Oz and Marianne gave me for my birthday. Every day the pile of fur is large.


Still, little drifts of Annie’s hair pile up under tables, beside the bed and along the hallway.

Oh, Annie, that’s all right. I'm not really complaining. Nobody is perfect.

Copyright 2012 by Shirley Domer

4 comments:

Jayhawk Fan said...

If it's not one thing, it's another! Right?

Love these photos, even the pile of hair!

Love you!

Shirley said...

Yes, there's always a fly in the ointment.

Love you, too!

Shirley said...

Annie got very sick last evening. We're worried, Two vets agree she has an inner ear infection, but her laft fron leg is painful and she has difficulty walking. She is so dear to us and it breaks our hearts to see her suffer. We're doing everything we can think of to help her: antibiotics, aspirin, ear drops, chicken and chicken broth And lots of stroking.

WilleWorks.com said...

Oh dear ~ I hope that Annie fells better soon. I love that photo of the kids with Annie. So sweet.