Pillow fright
October 31st 2008 10:06
Such a nice cushion. I know, let's ...
Greyhounds like to sleep about twenty-three and a half hours a day. The time they don't like sleeping is, invariably, the 30 minutes before your alarm goes off.
We like to wake at 7am, and our two greyhounds like to wake at 6.30am. They like to announce their membership of the new-day club by whining outside the bedroom door, but I trained them out of that by, according to the dictates of modern canine behavioural theory, bellowing at them. Also on occasion opening the bedroom door and chasing them down the passage and out into the backyard and waving my arms and remonstrating in high-pitched squeaks.
My wife understands my frustration when it gets to this stage, but suggests I should put some clothes on first.
Being denied the pleasure of depriving their pack leaders of sleep, our dogs seek other amusements until said pack leaders finally emerge and do the things that pack leaders do, such as scratch ears and provide breakfast.
Most mornings these amusements involve standing at the far end of the passage and whining, which wakes me just as efficiently as if they were standing outside my bedroom door, and a discouragement strategy for which I am still perfecting.
This morning, however, either Scratchy or Daisy, or both, found an alternative amusement which involved a cushion, a lot of head-shaking, and all the fun of a snow storm.
It also involved a lot of cleaning up and a discussion on the logistical viability of keeping cushions on our sofas. We might have to put them all in a cupboard out of harm's way. A case of pillow fright followed by pillow flight.
... destroy it.
That was such fun! Oh, wait, you look displeased about something.
Oh well. I'll just go check if breakfast has been served yet.
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