Being a Doggy Mama - 10% Velociraptor

 

This is a guest blog by everywhereventually.

Think back to the movie Jurassic Park.

Think back to the moment when the grizzled hunter ranger is showing the visitors the Velociraptor cage.

Think back to when he is in full exposition mode, telling everyone what clever hunters the velociraptors are... testing the electric security fence by "never testing the same place twice".

The relevance of this to Puppy Dog?

I have been invited by my friends, PD's alpha and beta pack leaders to stay in PD's den. As PD is a rescue hound, my friends cannot be 100% sure of what breed or breeds he is.  He looks very much like a Chocolate Lab, but there are a few differences in his tail and muzzle to the pure-bred lab.  My experiences of waking up in the PD den over the last two mornings lead me to suspect that he is 10% Velociraptor.

Why so?

The room I am sleeping in has two doors that access the hall. Each morning at around 8am there is a thump on the left door.  Then you hear clatter clatter clatter of claws on floor and on the right door another dull thud... 

Clatter Clatter Clatter followed by a snuffle and a snort by the left door.
Clatter Clatter Clatter scratch at doorhandle height on the right door.
Clatter Clatter Clatter whole body thump on the left door.
Clatter Clatter Clatter shoulder bump on the right door.

You see what clever PD is doing?  Testing the security and never in the same place twice.

Then there is a game changer.  In Jurassic Park, it is when the power fails and the Velociraptors are free.  In PDs den this morning, it is when my partner goes to the rest room, and only pulls the door 90% closed...

Clatter Clatter Clatter. Thump. 

I hear the sounds of the door swinging open and the sounds I am hearing start to change.

Pant Pant Pant. Clatter Clatter Clatter and then Lick Lick Lick all over my barely awake face!

Puppy Dog... 90% Lab, 10% Velociraptor.

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