Deep Thoughts With Dixie #29 - Walking

[nyyki]

Dixie leaned against my leg while I rested from all the organizing and decluttering I was doing. I said, "Hello, Dix, what's up on the dog world?"
"Sparky's been stuck inside because of the rain. The dog next door, who never tells me her name, doesn't say anything unless she's singing to the sounds that come and go fast."
"What? Oh, yeah, the sirens on fire trucks."
"What's a truck?"
"A big car that has space in the back so people can carry things; that's open to the sky."
"Oh, those – there are ones made of fire?"
"No, they're made of the usual stuff, but they go around putting out fires people don't want."
"Oh."
"What about Morris?"
"He's not part of the dog world – you've told me that before, and he also says it a lot."
"Well, he's right, he's a cat, so he's different from dogs and Two Legs."
"Pack leader?"
"Yes Dixie?"
"You're quiet."
"Yeah, I am."
"Why?"
"Why is someone like they are? That's a deep question that often takes a while to explain."
"Oh."
"Let me try – I spent what you would of think of as my puppy time in a place that wasn't always safe. My brother got into trouble a lot, so I learned how to be quiet so I didn't draw attention to myself. I didn't want to be noticed."
"Your brother? That's Molly's and Boo's pack leader?"
"Yes."
"He scares me. He's loud."
"Ah, and I'm quiet, so you're used to me. That explains something, he wonders why you shake when he's around – not shake paws, but shake your body. I'll tell him what's up with that."
"So you move so quiet because you were scared?"
"Wow, way to cut to the root of the situation, Dixie Pup. Yeah, that's probably it. I like being quiet too, it's better, in my mind, than stomping around like the roommate and some other people I know."
"Hey, talking about stomping, did I hear someone stomping on the roof?"
"Yeah, I need to get some work done on it."
"How do they do that?"
"They scrape the shingles off and put new ones down."
"I bet they're tall."
"No, they have things they can climb up on to get up there."
"That's the big difference between dog people and two legs people, you have all those things to do things."
"Yes, it's part of what makes us who we are. It took a long time to develop those things."
"Okay, so if you have all those things you can use, why can't you turn the backyard into inside?"
"Not this again, Dix, we've already talked about this."
I got up and got back to work before she drug me into that conversation again.

Comments

[extraarcha]

I enjoyed this read.
As i read it, Dixie is a lot smarter and wiser than some of the people i know.
Questioning things is the interesting way to live.
Dixie is lucky to be in your pack.

[nyyki]

Thank you. I'm happy she's in my pack too, she's an excellent dog, though a big change from my previous pack member, a guide dog. And I'll never need to buy an alarm system with her around.

[flamingsword]

Dixie is such a good dog. And you are a good dog’s-person.

[nyyki]

Thank you.

[we_are_spc]

I wish I could do this with my cats.

I enjoyed this. :)

[nyyki]

Now that I've got the removal of myself from Web 2.0 social media these will happen here from now on, or at least as long as I keep writing them and keep this account. I plan at some point to collect all of them into a book.