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Homecomings and Separation Anxiety.
Today is the day that Danny an Lindsay gets back from their honeymoon trip. Why did they have ta go away for so long? I'm just wakin' up an I like ta just stay still for awhile. Mitzi says that I'm lazy. What does lazy mean? I had ta wake up cause she was nudgin' me with her nose. I don't like a wet nose in the face in the mornin', why does she hafta do that?
"Hey doll face can't ya just let me sleep for awhile."
"One of us has to get up it's too crowded in here together."
That was when I remembered that Mitzi stayed in my bed last night.
"Hey Rex… stop daydreaming, today is your last day here before the humans get back. I want to go to the park an play.
"Sure baby… but can't we just stay asleep till Greg wakes up, I like bein' here with ya."
"Me too Rex…" She licked my face an then she put her head on my back. Did I say I like to be close ta her, she smells great?
"Well…well what have we got here." Greg decided ta get up an he was standing there lookin' at me an Mitzi like Danny sometimes looks when he does the teasin' thing with Flack and Stella.
"What's up Greg… oh I see. I guess Danny might not get his dog back. It doesn't look like Rex is gonna want to go home."
Sure I want ta go home, the Stacey person don't know nothin' bout me. I miss my humans, but how come they can't come back tomorrow? The humans were laughin' an I didn't like that. I tried ta tell them an they just laughed some more. How come humans are so rude sometimes?
"Why do they hafta laugh at us?"
"I don't know, lets get up and maybe we'll get some leftover steak for breakfast."
"Now you're talkin' my language."
"Is that all you ever think about, your stomach?"
"Not last night baby."
She smelled embarrassed an wouldn't look at me for awhile, an then she said. "The next time you stay here, you're sleeping alone smart boy."
"So there's goin' ta be a next time?"
"Danny and Lindsay seem to think you can't stay anywhere else. Why is that, did you get into trouble with the neighbors, maybe chew up their slippers.
Stacey gave us both some left over steak and while we ate it I had ta tell Mitzi what's what with the old lady next door to Danny, an how he always forgets my chew toys when I hafta go there.
"So it ain't my fault she gets her slippers chewed up or the rug, its Danny's fault. That lady is crazy anyways; she watches a weird show with some guy who thinks humans should be in charge not dogs."
"Oh yeah, I've seen that a couple of times, that's why I had to go to obedience school, which I hated. I know how to behave all on my own."
I could'a said lots of things at that point but I decided ta be nice. It was our last day together an I didn't want her ta be mad at me.
Greg said after breakfast that since it was a Saturday an they didn't have to go to the work place that we would go ta the park. We was excited an tried ta tell the Stacey person ta hurry up, but we had ta wait till she put the dishes in the dishwasher thing. I want ta know how that thing works but Danny never shows me. I try ta ask nicely but he never understands nothin' that I say.
Anyway we went ta the park an we both got ta play bouncy ball with Stacey an Greg for awhile an then we had ta watch Greg an some of his friends play hoops. Stacey an some of her friends were sittin' on a bench an talkin' an laughin' bout the guys. Mitzi an I got ta see some of our friends. I was glad that the girls didn't come sniffin' around no more. I guess Mitzi musta told them to stop.
Brutus was there talkin about himself ta some of Mitzi's friends. I noticed that Mitzi was laughin at them.
"Hey baby… how come your laughin' at Mr. big time drug dog. I thought that you thought he was cute."
"Naw… he's okay but he's not as cute as you."
Why does she say stuff like that in front of our friends, then they laugh at me. I think she does it on purpose. I think she's been talkin' ta Lindsay, cause Lindsay likes ta tease Danny a lot too.
We had to go home when the sun was goin' away. It was great to spend the whole day in the park, but I didn't want ta go back cause I knew that Danny would be comin' to pick me up to go home.
He was there waitin' when we got back, so I had ta say goodbye ta Mitzi.
"Hey baby don't be sad."
"I'm not sad, I get to have the place to myself again, without you here trying to embarrass me and make a mess."
"I didn't make a mess, that time with the pancake mix fallin' on the floor wasn't my fault."
"Yes it was. You get too excited by food."
"Hey… those were good pancakes."
She licked my face again, an I didn't want ta go, but Danny said we had to go. I licked her face an she said.
"See you around street rat."
"Bye baby… don't cry."
"I'm not going to cry Rex I'm not a girly girl."
"Yes… you are."
Danny picked me up an took me out of the apartment an down the stairs to the street.
"Did you miss us Rex?"
Of course I did, I wanted to go home, but my feet wanted to go back to Mitzi. Danny put the leash on me an I had to go back with him.
We got back to our when it was dark. Lindsay took of the leash an picked me up while Danny put my bed and toys back in my corner.
"Hey Rex, did you miss us." Lindsay wanted to know. I told I did but that I wanted ta go back ta Mitzi's place. I had ta sit in her lap instead. She smelled happy so I stayed there an pretended ta listen ta all bout their trip.
I wonder if Mitzi misses me. Do you think she's thinkin' bout me?