A Most Helpful Pup

 Mom and Dad invited some people over for dinner.  I know Mom works hard when people come for dinner.  I try to be helpful.

First I am on high alert.  If I hear a noise that sounds like someone might be coming to our house, I give a big bark and run around the house till someone checks.  (I would check myself, but I haven't figured out how to open the door.  I heard Mom talk about one of my predecessors who got out the front door because they hadn't closed it quite far enough and the wind opened it up.  My brother's name was Caesar.  Caesar got out of the house and went across a very busy street where he met a very nice woman.  She put a leash on him and tried to take him up her street to Friendship Village, where she thought he must have come from.  Apparently my brother was pretty smart and he pulled her away and back across the street so she could take him back to his own house.  She saw the open door and guessed that's where he must have come from.  Then she put him inside with a note that said, "Hope this is your dog!" and she left her phone number.  Uh-oh.  There I go off on another track again.  Sorry.  But I thought it was a fun story.  If I got out, I know where I would go.  I would go right down to the corner and turn right and right again.  That's where Mrs. Gerri and Mr. Grant live.  They would come out and give me treats!  But where was I?  Oh right.  I was making sure Mom and Dad would know when our guests would come.)  

I guess I might overdo it, 'cuz Dad gets kinda frustrated when I bark every 5 minutes or so.  So I try try try to sit quietly, but I'm so excited to see guests come to our house.  It doesn't happen a lot.  

Then when they finally get here, I try to be helpful again.  This time I put on my waiter's apron so I could help with the food distribution.

Mom doesn't actually let me help with food distribution.  I sometimes get a bit distracted and eat the food instead.  But I'm very good at sitting quietly while everyone else is eating and hoping Mom might slip me a piece of meat or even a potato.  Sometimes I get a kong toy filled with carrots and I work on that for awhile when they are all eating.  

It's nice just to have a lot of people around for dinner.  Everyone who has come so far has been so nice to me and gives me lots of pets.  I hope lots more people come over.  I'll be ready and waiting with my waiter apron!

Hope you have nice guests for dinners!

Love, G