Everyday
it’s the same thing. We bark and we’re told to quiet down. Our
parents don’t bother to find out what we are barking at they just order
quiet. This week Chase and Slater scored a big victory for all dogs who
have ever been told to be quiet while impending doom is about to
strike.
One
night this week Chase and Slater were standing by the outside glass
door barking into the night. Their Mom kept telling them to quit down.
When she went to check on what caused the barking she was stunned to
find a man slumped over on his porch.
She
called 911 and the police came for the slumping man. They loaded him
into the police car and took him away. The next day a man came to speak
to Chase’s and Slater’s Dad to tell him that the man had been sleep
walking although sleep slumping seems more appropriate.
Chase’s
and Slater’s Mom realized that, if they had not barked at him, warning
her, when she went to sleep, the slumping man may have straightened,
entered their home, and who knows what damage could be done. Recently
our friend Anna Nicole’s house was robbed. Luckily only the pups were
home and no one was hurt.
What
Chase and Slater did, shortly after what happened at Anna’s house, may
finally give us what we have wanted for so long. The Freedom to Bark
whenever we want. And now, when we do, and our parents begin to tell us
that we should be quiet, they will think of Chase and Slater, and
hopefully not say anything at all.
Now,
when we are looking out the window, and we see a neighbor walking down
the street and start to bark loudly Mommy won’t yell at us to quiet down
but will start to think of the walker as a potential porch sloucher.
If we start barking at a noise that only we can hear instead of getting
shouted at for barking at nothing maybe they will recognize that it
could be the sound of supersonic North Korean missiles hundreds of miles
away and our barking will help them get to safety before the
explosions.
So
thank you Chase and Slater, not only for protecting your Mom from the
serial sloucher but to put in the minds of Mom’s everywhere that we
might not be barking for no reason but we actually are barking because
we are under an imminent threat (when, in reality, we are just barking
to bark.)
Thank you Chase and Slater for giving us the Freedom to Bark.
