I let out a long sigh of contentment.
I had reached my destination at last...
I lay right between the two humans, my cold black nose resting on one of their pillows.
Bliss.
Now mind you I WAS invited to the FOOT of the bed earlier. But had surreptitiously inched my way upward until I gained my coveted spot.
My plan worked.
I started out weeks ago waking them up with a lick to the face at about 4 am each morning. Thinking I needed to pee like every weak bladdered female, one of them would get up and let me out into the back yard. Whereupon I dutifully peed and politely came back in and went back to sleep in my doggy bed in the corner of the bedroom.
Then I started stalling about the pee part. I dithered. I posed. I sniffed the air.
Then I deigned to pee at all. But woke them up again 15 minutes later, and peed then.
Next I didn't pee at all. Three times in a row. It was beautiful. They got up and let me out just like an automatic door at Safeway.
Then one morning I waited until the sun had come up on a weekend. After the lick in the face, I put my front feet on the bed and made doe eyes at them that what I really wanted was to join them in the sanctum sanctorium of the pack leader's den.
They let me up. I was adorable about it. I fawned over them.
But they declared I was something of a "moose" and a "bed hog" whatever that means and made me get down. But it was time to get up anyway, so they didn't think much about their decision.
Last night I decided to make my move. The alpha male had been out very late at work. The alpha female got up in the dead of night and seemed to be in some sort of distress. She stayed awake for well over an hour. When the male got home, they both went to bed. I bided my time.
Then when dawn was just thinking about breaking I did the old lick the hand maneuver. The male was out cold. But the female woke up. I knew she didn't want to get out of bed and sure enough, she threw back the down comforter at the foot of the bed and said "Up." in a bleary voice. I jumped up and stayed quietly down there until they were both dead to the world again.
That's when I started my belly crawl to Nirvana.
These humans.
So gullible.
Am I good or what?
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