Hello, friends. It is I once again. The dog. As in the past, I ask for just a moment of your time, your consideration, and maybe cheese.
As we know, today is July the Fourth, easily remembered because it is one day after July the Third. It is also an important American holiday, even to those of us in the Canine-American community. We enjoy the jolly get-togethers, the barbecues and picnics with dropped food, the many games that dogs can join in on, like that one where people stand around in a diamond and go crazy when a doggie playfully steals the little white ball. So much fun!
But there is one thing about this holiday that we dogs do not like, and that is your insistence on blowing things up. That is bad! Why would you do something that is bad? Don't you know that the exploding things frighten dogs? It's true!
When the things are blowing up you look kind of scared too, you know, like you don't want to be hit with them. I'll bet that would hurt! Maybe you should stop with that stuff!
Remember, the pain you save may be your own. Look at this famous clip. The poor doggie is not trying to hurt anyone; he just wanted to play with the stick. But then all the people run around like chickens as it fires at their feet. Not so fun when the shoot is on the other foot!
Even when you are blowing things up way in the sky, where it is not quite as dangerous, we doggies cannot understand the appeal. So there's a bunch of gray lights. Big deal. It's not like the stuff smells good. And the sound is awful! I cannot tell you just how loud that noise is to our sensitive ears. It is terrifying! It is like thunder times ten! That sensitive hearing that helps us find Timmy in the well or hear Sweet Polly Purebred call for help is the same sensitive hearing that gets us all scared and upset. Can't you find another way to celebrate this big holiday? Something less explosive? Maybe something more cheese-oriented? I hear you have a lot of cheese just lying around.
To sum up, we dogs ask is that you bear in mind this simple thought:
Before you start to blow things up
Remember that it makes your pup
Scared.
This has been a public service announcement from the dog.
My little Mongrel is always terribly distraught on the fourth. I wish silent fireworks were possible. Flashes of beautiful color, without the assault on the eardrums!
ReplyDeletePoor Mongrel. It's hell on the dogs. I'd feel better if we just said, OK, we're doing this on July 4th and everyone has to stop by midnight. But there's always a few hold-my-beer types that can't wait until the 4th, can't stop at midnight, and can't wait to get out of the hospital to shoot off what they had left.
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