Originally posted by zippy-kat

What good pup-sitters ~
'Round of cookies on me!
I'll load two of em onna Greyhound -
YOU can "pass da kookies" yourself!!

We're taking applications for Dawg Sitter / Escort - again!

MidNite Outtee rigged up...
SmokeMutt on his own...
Cinder on Point wiff Bowser his Wing-Man...

Off they go... "Stay Close, Kids" ...

Half hour later ~ a "KNOCK" onna door.

SmokeMutt's KOLD and wants IN!
Where's the OTHER TWO!???

Whadda ya askin ME for!??
I got <fired> as Sitter / Eskort!!

"CINDER!! - BOWSER!! - COME!!"

<silence>

Can't find my snow boots... <skrew it>
C'mone, Smoke - FIND EM!!

No tracks toward the pond; up to the front yard...
Hmmmm, "Double Track" leading west towards the distant
naybur inna woods ...

"CINDER! - BOWSER! - COME!

Bowzie: "<YIPP> <YIPPITY-YIPP>"!!
Cinder: "<WHIIIIIne> <yip> <YAP-YAP>"!!

Bowser *sighted* runnin around & over a fallen tree...
"CINDER!!"
"<WHINNNNE> <yip> <yap>"
(from further up the tree line)...

CALM DOWN, Cin - I'm here!
"<WHINNNE> <pant> <paw> <tug><tug> <pull>"

Y-Thingy Rope <wound> around small tree 5-6 times;
Dawg attached;
rope leads to adjacent tree; wound aroud 4-5 times;
Dawg NOT attached.

<UN-Wind> panicky Big Dawg;
<Call> lil dawg... (who's <bouncing> around in the woods).

We head back home, picking up da "Scout" (SmokeMutt) who
thinks we're gonna PLAY - NOT!
Bowser runs across the road and parallels the front yard;
re-crosses and heads up the drive.
THANKFULLY Bowzie trotts in the garage, waits for the door
to open, and comes right in.
ALL "accounted for"!! ~ THANKS, God!!

A close examination of the Y=Thingy ROPE revealed:
Bowser "wearing" about 6" of rope; ending in a "clean cut"!
Mating end of his end had ANOTHER almost clean cut -
BOTH "cuts" about One Dawg-Mouth Apart...

Hmmmmm... "ROPE" only good to hold HIM while you're *watchin* him!
(Wonder how many times he's practiced the Rope Cut Trick!?)

SmokeMutt earned two Bisquits;
Certain Other Dawgs got *durty looks*!

We're runnin low on "Eskort Staff" ...
OK, KAT - you're Next Up!!

I wonder what they're <plotting> for TOMORROW??




/s/ da Beleaguered Bus Driv