Watch Dogs

13 Jan 2008 – In the morning when my alarm goes off, first the radio comes on for 15 minutes, then the alarm actually rings and I turn it off and turn the radio back on. One morning last week I had done this and the station was doing a news story. It had to do with the ASPCA and the interview was taking place at an animal shelter. You could hear all the dogs barking noisily in the background. Jack and Chloe were sleeping on the waterbed until that interview came on. The minute they heard the dogs barking, they jumped up and started barking back at those dogs. It didn’t matter that they could not see the dogs or that they were not anywhere near our house. They could hear the dogs and that was enough for them to sound the alert: ”Beware! Beware! Intruders! There are other dogs about and they are mean and nasty. We must protect you with our incessant barking.” And then the interview was over and the dogs stopped barking and went back to sleep.