Archive for March 28th, 2005
Monday, March 28th, 2005A Visit from the Cousins
Argus had a difficult weekend. His cousins came for a visit, and the youngest one (a fluffy mix of golden retriever and chow) has a bark that can break glass and an annoying way of standing directly in front of Argus’ face when he does it. Argus gathered up his toys and fled to a far corner of the yard, leaving Caribou to entertain and discipline Buster.
Argus worries about his toys, especially his towel, when the cousins come. The oldest cousin pays little mind to dog toys, but Buster is devoted to destroying them with his razor sharp juvenile teeth. And Buster knows where they are kept; piled high in a basket inside the house. So Argus lay in the corner of the yard, with the outside toys protected beneath his paws, and worried about the frisbee, and the turtle, and the rope, and his beloved towel; all laying unprotected inside the house.
It was some time before we noticed the worry in our boy’s eyes.
“He’s shaking,” Kip said.
We brought him inside where he gathered up his belongings and parked himself next to my leg, trembling. When hours later the cousins left, Argus laid his head on his towel, gave a long sigh and fell into a deep sleep.