TheBanyanTree: Some Sights Are Not To Be Missed

[Pam North]

Sure wish *we* could have seen a pic of that!!!!  :)

On 2/10/06, Scott Daniels <scotrace at mac.com> wrote:
>
> We're a family with dogs. Bulldogs. Three of them.
>
> I know everyone thinks their dog is cute (and it ain't so), but Bulldogs
> do things the average pooch doesn't.
>
> Ferinstance.
> The other night, one of the girls lay sprawled on the couch, dead asleep,
> snoring with gusto. As some representatives of this fine old breed are wont,
> she slept with her tongue lolled well out of her mouth.
> Her sister, who was most surely *not* asleep, spied that outstretched pink
> tongue and studied it. She approached her snoozing sister and sniffed it,
> then sat back and watched.
> "Damn," she seemed to think. "That's the gal-derndest thang I ever saw."
> Again she crept upon the tongue, knowing what had to be done.
> Grasping her sleeping sister's tongue in her own teeth, gently, I must
> say, she began to... tug.
> Now, anyone with a dog has played tug-of-war. And they've seen that
> neck-arching rapid-jerking doggy tugging motion in action.
>
> Tug... tug... tug-tug-tug. On her poor sister's tongue.
>
> Here's the kicker - the nap went on, the snoring barely interrupted, until
> the tugger lost interest and crawled up beside her sis for a snuggle.
>
> And that was the gal-derndest thang I ever saw.
>
>
> Scott
>