PrincessMy brother-in-law came to see us one day and had in the palm of his hand a teeny-weeny brown puppy dog. It was a present for our daughters who for some reason I never determined, named her Princess. At the time we already had a huge white rabbit who took delight in scaring the daylights out of the poor little Princess. When we tried to feed Princess the rabbit would hop over and bump Princess away from her food. Princess however, was a pure-bred Boxer and she was growing larger by the hour. One day the bunny rabbit came hopping over to bump Princess away from her food and Princess growled and bit rabbit on the nose. Rabbit hastily retreated and never bothered Princess again! A few months later we had moved into another house and I planted a dozen rose bushes in the back yard. I came home from work the day after I planted them to find that Princess had taken all twelve rose bushes out of the ground and put them neatly in a row on the patio. The roots looked to be in pretty good shape so I replanted the dang things. The next afternoon, all twelve of the rose bushes were lined up neatly in a row....on the patio! So I decided I didn't want no damn rose bushes anyhow. A Boxer as you probably know, looks real mean. They are however, just gentle giants. (At least Princess was) There were lots of children in the neighborhood and Princess just loved children. Now we had a six-foot fence around the back yard where Princess was supposed to stay when outside. Somehow however, Princess would magically appear in the midst of a bunch of children playing out in front of the house and scare the living daylights out of them! It turned out that Princess somehow could jump plum over a six foot fence if she wanted to. One morning just as I drove up to my office a great big warm tongue began licking my ear. Princess had scaled the fence and jumped into my car and until then I didn't even know she was in the back seat. Since it was a nice cool day I decided to leave her in the car until I went home for lunch. When I got back in the car at noon I found that Princess had eaten all the upholstery off the back seat and there was nothing there but bare springs! Princess kept jumping over the fence and terrorizing the neighborhood and finally one day a man saw her and said, "I have two boys that sure would like to have a dog like that." The next day I took Princess to his house to see his boys. And sure nuff his boys went crazy over her and Princess started slobbering all over them. Everybody looked real happy and when I left Princess didn't even notice! |