Greetings friends and fans! (That's how it's supposed to start, right?) This is The Daily Bone, Princess Edition, and we are your student doggie reporters Rosie and Baby Spaniel.
Seeing that this is our first winter of our lives, there are a lot of things to discover. Apparently, there are many creatures that are not doggies or humans! Wow!
Here's a picture of a squirrel and a birdie in our back yard.
Upon discovering these creatures, we proceeded to approach them with great caution. This was not because we were afraid of them; but because we cocker spaniels are the smallest of the hunting doggie breeds, and stalking prey comes naturally to us. Here we go:
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Quietly stepping out into the garage. |
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Pausing to peek out the back door. |
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Slowly inching closer. |
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OK. The coast is clear. |
The birdies flew away, although the little ones called chickadees stayed in the nearby pear tree. Some of the bigger birdies flew into the oak tree and started calling us jerks. Our ghostwriter says these are grackles and they are very rude.*
Ghostwriter says that squirrels are usually quite rude too. However, they soon discovered that we puppies can run a lot faster than our esteemed, but arthritic predecessor Chester L. W. Spaniel. Now they depart with great haste if they so much as get a glimpse of us.
There were a few other creatures we've recently seen. But our ghostwriter said we would not be chasing these any time soon.
Our ghostwriter also asked which one of us left a poop on the carpet in her office while she was writing this glowing report for us.
Who, us??????
* Links to a couple of Chester's stories about grackles: