Still Top Dog!

For almost 9 months my masters daughter hung out at our house. She became my new best friend, playing with me, petting me, and just giving me lots of attention. I looked forward to her being here everyday. But things were about to change!

About a week ago everything seemed different in our home. My mommy was gone at night time. Daddy wouldn't come home until late, and my masters daughter hadn't been here for days. What was going on? Then one day, my best freind came back, but everything was different. Attached to the front of her was the biggest sqeeky toy that I had ever seen. Naturally I'm thinking yay! A brand new sqeeky toy to play with. But this was no ordinary sqeeky toy.

Everyone kept telling me to stay away from this sqeeky toy. It moved and smelled like my masters daughter, and it made lots of funny noises. Of course I wanted to play with it, but people kept yelling at me to stay away. And to make things worse, my masters daughter wouldn't pay any attention to me, and for the whole time this big, sqeeky, toy would never leave the front of her. It just seemed to stay attached the whole time. I use to be top dog of my house, but now this annoying toy was becoming top dog, and I was getting very annoyed by it.

This was a very interesting toy indeed. I mean how could my family not expect me to want to sniff it, and lick it, and play with it? I was ready for this toy to go bye, bye. But no one would ever leave the dang thing alone. One minute alone with this toy, and I would surely try to snag it and bury it somewhere in the back yard, so I could be top dog again.

One day my masters let me get close enough to lick it, and get a good sniff. But there was something different about this toy..it was like it was fragile and needed my protection, like it needed me. Out of no where an instinct took over..and I felt that this new toy needed me. It needed my protection and my unconditional love. Each day my masters allowed me to get closer and closer to this sqeeky toy, and something inside my doggy heart knew that this toy was different, and I became very protected of it. For some reason I sensed that this toy was connected to my masters daughter, they smelt the same too..and I came to accept that this sqeeky toy was different, and that it would be around for a long time, and that maybe someday we would be best freinds!

I realized that I am still top dog of the house, and that my new mission is to protect this new toy that has come into my life, and that this toy is very special!