{"id":514,"date":"2010-07-13T07:58:41","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T13:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.keloland.com\/lund\/?p=514"},"modified":"2023-07-20T21:00:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T21:00:11","slug":"the-dog-days-of-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/the-dog-days-of-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dog Days Of Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Linda and I had a big dose of Brandy over the weekend.<\/p>\n

Now, before you reach for the phone book and, for our own good, look up the number to Alcoholics Anonymous (It\u2019s towards the front) let me explain.<\/p>\n

This is Brandy.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\"Brandy<\/p>\n

It\u2019s our daughter and son-in-law\u2019s\u00a0doggie and since they were going to be out of town for a few days, they asked if we\u2019d be interested in hosting the little bugger at our place. \u201cSure, glad to help out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, it\u2019s amazing how that pint sized Shih Tzu managed to transform a couple of reasonably reserved retirees into a pair of blithering idiots..talking in pigeon English an octave higher than normal.. asking questions as if we fully expected this little creature to respond with something more than a cocked head and a tail wag.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs Brandy ready to go outside? Is she? Yes, you are aren\u2019t you? Shall we go outside? Okay, sweetie. Where\u2019s your chain? Where\u2019s your chain Brandy? Okay, here we go..yes here we go. Whadda ya see out there huh? Alright Brandy go potty now. There, good girl. You really had to go didn\u2019t you? Alright honey..shall we go inside? Are you hungry? I\u2019ll bet you are. Where\u2019s your ball?<\/p>\n

Of course one of the reasons we fawn over this animal is because even with a fresh buzz haircut from the barber, she\u2019s so darned cute.<\/p>\n

The only issue I have with Brandy is her breed; Shitzu..or Shih Tzu. It\u2019s kind of embarrassing to say out loud in mixed company..at least the way I was saying it.<\/p>\n

I finally did look the name up in the on-line dictionary and see that the preferred pronunciation is now \u201cSheet-zoo.\u201d \u00a0I suspect that was changed somewhere along the line by the good taste police who have also managed to upgrade the pronunciation of the seventh planet from the sun, Uranus, to \u201cYOUR-ah-nus.\u201d<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t long after our son in law came to take Brandy home that I began to miss the clicking of her toenails on the kitchen floor; dropping her toy rubber hot dog at my feet for a fast game of fetch; doing three circles on the couch before lying down next to me for a nap or with a ferocious growl, challenging the squirrels and rabbits that passed by the window to a fight.<\/p>\n

\"Brandy<\/p>\n

Anyway, the whole Brandy experience has rekindled that flame inside me which really wants a dog of our own. By the way Linda was acting, I figured she was ready too..but I\u2019m afraid it\u2019s going to take more convincing. If we ever do get a dog, though, it probably won\u2019t be a Shih Tzu.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve always wanted a cocker.<\/p>\n

No, wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Linda and I had a big dose of Brandy over the weekend. Now, before you reach for the phone book and, for our own good, look up the number to Alcoholics Anonymous (It\u2019s towards the front) let me explain. This is Brandy. \u00a0 It\u2019s our daughter and son-in-law\u2019s\u00a0doggie and since they were going to be…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11866,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/11866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jodystaples.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}