Part I - Nico and His Friends

Well behaved and listening!

It had been a long day already and it was only 10 AM. Wearily putting my head on the back of the den couch, my eyes started to close. BAM....something fell in the kitchen. That's never good in a house with 3 puppies.  Juliet, the youngest dog climbed onto the step stool and then onto the bar stool and then took a leisurely walk on my countertop. I came in just in time to see her run off the countertop and onto the floor. But in the meantime, she had taken her paw and batted my schedule planner off the countertop.

I asked her, "Juliet, were you naughty?" She heard the word naughty and my harsher tone and ran under the couch. On this day she had a bit more speed in her step.  Little did I know....

Her first cousin, and fellow cohort in crime, Nico had his furry head buried in my planner and used both paws to spread the  pages apart as he caught a glimpse of me coming around the corner. Nico is a paper lover.  Nico is a paper eater.  If he has paper in his mouth and I catch him and try to grab it from his mouth...he chews quickly and swallows! Yuck!

He quickly ripped up a whole weeks worth of plans...chewed it and swallowed  it right before my eyes.

I chased him....by the way...not good with this puppy.  He thinks it's a game.

And then I looked at my book.  A weeks work of appointments...gone in a swallow.  My mind went crazy trying to decide what numbers I needed to dial to re-do my schedule.  I starting making the phone calls and fifteen minutes later...there were Nico and Juliet....laying in the den huddled close together...on their backs....snoring. A long day....indeed!





Nico as a puppy....so innocent and calm!