Well, now I've gone and dunnit

Greetings fellow canine worshipers..... It is I, Comet, your faithful canine (and soon to be ruler).

I think there may actually be a good chance that my mother is going to trade me in for a hamster. I say this because she told me. There maaaaaaaay possibly be a reason behind this.....possibly......You see....it kind of went like this......

For some reason, humans feel that they need at least 6 hours of uninterrupted sleep a night. Well, my human mom has 3 cats and 2 dogs so she rarely gets that anyway but for some reason the other night she was really tired and wanted to go to bed early......but that just was not in the cards. She finally got to sleep around midnight....all tucked in nice and comfy with me, the pug and Oliver (the cat that thinks he is a dog). House was quiet, everything was wonderful. But then at about 2:00 in the morning I heard it. My super "spidey" senses were awoken. There was something moving outside in the back forest. I knew it. I had to alert the house. I sprung up as fast as my 120 pound body takes me and leapt off of the bed with the grace of a leopard all the while barking as loudly and as deeply as I could. (Now in my own defense I did NOT see my mother dang near have a heart attack from me scaring the bejeezus out of her from a dead sleep....). I ran down the stairs barking as loudly as I could with the pug and Oliver close behind. I had to wake the whole house up. It was urgent. I ran all over the house as fast as possible, barking as loudly as I could. My mom came running down the stairs fully clothed and putting shoes on while running after me to get me to calm down and "hush". I couldn't though. My keen senses were telling me there was something outside. Something that I had to investigate. My mom went outside first in to the back and stood there listening in the dark, trying to hear what I must have heard. Well, that was a lost cause. Only I have the keen hearing to know what sounds are dangerous..... (well, that and the fact that I was barking so loudly and losing my mind in the house that the only thing she could hear was ME). She finally came inside and then I blew past her and took off. Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to jump the fat pug in a single bound...... I ran and ran and ran.....I ran the entire perimeter of my yard over and over and over..... all the while barking as loudly as I can (and that is LOUD). My mom came running outside because I wasn't stopping and she needed me to be quiet before someone called the coppers. She chased me all over the yard (did I mention that the yard was a skating rink because of all of the rain that topped off the snow and then froze? that's kind of a key point in this story). Mom chased me "whisper yelling" for me to hush up but I couldn't. I had to tell whatever was in the woods that I lived here and they were not allowed in. .... So I did. For almost a full hour.... and yes, for you adults reading this....that was almost a full hour of my mother chasing me at 2:00 in the morning, in the dark, around an acre of land....on ice. After almost falling about a 100 times she finally went back in to the house and grabbed some turkey from the fridge and yelled "TREATS". WHAT? Treats? In the middle of the night? COOOOOOL ! I ran as fast as I could back in to the house with the fat pug following. We sat right away like good boys and got our treat. Then my mom sat on the couch, looked at me, kissed me on the head and said "tomorrow, I am trading you in for a hamster". And with that, she looked at the clock that now said 4am, made some coffee, went upstairs and started her day. ..... I, however, went back to bed :).

Until next time..... Comet out.