The college kids came home this weekend for the first time. It's so nice to have four kids at the dinner table again.
Our foster dog is not very used to living in a people house, it turns out: not house-trained, still figuring out what's okay to chew. Good thing she's cute.
I have settled on calling her Perdita. This is because (a) Perdita is one of the dogs in 101 Dalmatians, and this Perdita has spotted ears and a spotted belly, and (b) Perdita is a character in The Winter's Tale (though let us hope she does not exit, chased by a bear), and (c) Perdita means "the female who was lost," which is a good name for a rescue dog.
I do not think I can get a good picture of her lips, but she has these funny irregular spots along them. She looks like a 4-year-old who borrowed her mother's lipstick and smeared it all around.
When Champ was here he thought squeaky toys were The Best -- except he loved them so vigorously that they stopped squeaking in short order. He would continue to try to wring squeaks from them long after their squeakers had given up the ghost. So when Ziggy came, we got him a little squeaky pig. Well, Ziggy thought it was a Devil Pig. He would flee from the Devil Pig. If he'd had opposable thumbs he would have been flinging blessed salt and the St. Michael prayer in its direction. Opposable thumbs and better catechesis, I guess.
When we first showed Perdita the Devil Pig, she agreed with Zig about its origins. She barked vigorously at it. She backed cautiously away from it. Today, though, she has decided that even a Devil Pig deserves a second chance. She and the Devil Pig are now fast friends. She plays Devil Pig Theme and Variations: squeeeeeak-squ-squ-squeak.
I guess that's progress? one small step toward civilization, for her to learn to play with toys as they're intended to be played with?
But just between you and me and the internet, Devil Pig might be heading off to the Sty in the Sky pretty soon. There are a few too many repeats in Perdita's version of Devil Pig Theme and Variations.
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