I can't believe it! They left WITHOUT me!!!!

It was a nice late summer's day when my mom and dad climbed into the car. They packed my crate and a bunch of my food and toys in there as well. That means only one thing: We're going on a trip. But I wonder where to? I'm going to settle in for the ride because these things usually take time except we didn't go very far. Instead we stopped at Diesel's house. Oh boy am I excited. We always have so much fun together.
"Let's go, let's go," my tail wags furiously. Clearly they must see that we need to hurry inside. I have some playing to do! Now why do you suppose they're taking all my stuff out of the car? Maybe Diesel is going to borrow it, or maybe we're all staying here for a bit. Oh I sure hope it's that!
Oh boy we're at the door at long last.
"Open it, open it, open it," I'm afraid I whined a bit. Oh boy ITS Diesel! Now its time to wrestle and run and obliterate ALL things stuffed!
"Diesel!" Wag, wag, sniff, sniff. "Lets play!"
"Okay, did you bring any stuffies with you?" he grins.
"You bet I did. Let's destroy the mean kitty stuffy. I keep gnawing the ears off but they magically reappear! Let finish it for GOOD!" So we each grabbed hold of mean kitty and ran ALL over the house. Up the stairs, down the stairs, around the tables, onto the couches...you get the idea.





All of the sudden I realize that mom stops my playing to give me a kiss on the head and tells me to be good. And then THEY LEFT WITHOUT ME!(whine, whine, pace, pace). Why would they do such a thing? I was having so much fun, but its only fun when they can watch!
"Diesel, open the door! I'm sure I can catch them!"
"Sorry, it's not like I haven't tried to open it before. I just can't manage the doorknob," He said.
Whine, whine, pace, pace, pace....Why is no one listening to me? They're just looking at me sadly. Can't they see this is all a mistake? I can't believe that the jerks left without me! I hope they never come back. Yeah, that's right, I mean it!






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Well, its been 10 days now since my abandonment. And I have to say things here aren't so bad. I'm not sure I want to go home to those jerks! At least here I get to sleep on the bed at night tucked between Diesels humans. Though they don't take too kindly to my stretching or my middle of the night farts that as they put it, "Is peeling the paint on the ceiling!" I get to play with Diesel all the time. We wrestle and run and destroy toys. And I get to go to the park a lot more because they live closer to it. I even get yummy CANNED FOOD!!! I hardly ever get that stuff at home. It's the perfect place, so I must be happy, right? Well I'm kind of happy! And kind of happy that they left me with friends. {Sigh}. I have everything I could possibly want, yet....


KNOCK, KNOCK!
Oh, I better snap out of it! We have company; we need to do our job:
BARK! BARK! BARK!
I wonder who it is, I'll just jump up and.....
BARK, BARK, WHINE, WHINE, BARK, HOWL, BARK, BARK, WHINE!!!!!
"Open it, open it, open it NOW! Come on, come on, come on!!!!"
They're back, they came back!
"I missed you, I didn't think you were coming back for me. But here you are and I'm SO excited!!!!" Full body wag, leap in the air and giving kisses, rubbing against legs, and mouth handshakes......
"You know this would have been so much easier if you hadTOLD me you were coming back! JEESH!" But at least I had fun!