Hello!

Hello!

By Fantasia Dog

I love to greet people who come to our house. I just always want to be the first to say, “Hello!” to anyone who visits. I want to say, “Welcome home!” to my human and the upstairs human.

I have a slight problem, though. I am a bit jumpy. I don’t mean “jumpy” as in frightened or anxious. I mean “jumpy” as in I get really excited and jump on people when I greet them.

My human has a solution. She knows I calm down when I get one of my crocodiles. I don’t know why. I just never jump on people when I have a toy crocodile in my mouth.

Today, both my human and the upstairs human went out for a while. When they came home I greeted them, but I had already got a crocodile when I heard the car. I went to the door to say, “Hello,” but I was carrying my crocodile and didn’t get over excited. I behaved like a polite little lady dog. I didn’t jump on either of them.

My human said she was so proud of me. She called me a very good dog. Then she noticed she’d left the bedroom door open, and I hadn’t emptied the bin in her room. She patted me and told me what a good dog I am.

My human is very proud of me, but I am very proud of myself as well. I was such a good dog.

Then Princess came and rubbed against me and meowed at me, and I snapped at her. I was a very, very good dog all day, but being a good dog is hard work, and little catty sisters can be very annoying.

I’ll be a good dog again tomorrow. Maybe.