Tuesday, October 05, 2004
The Greatest Dog Show On Earth
Well, it was for a few minutes, anyway.
Mike got the idea over the weekend to set up a dog show. More of a circus act, really, with Climber as the main attraction. What with one thing and another, it didn't work out for a full family attendance until tonight. (And sadly, Nigel missed it, as he is still working in Denver M through F.)
Damaris and the kids were over, and Mike enthusiastically let the girls join his troupe. At one point as I was fixing dinner, Marisa came and asked me for paper so we could all have number cards to hold up and score Climber on her tricks. She also confided that they had wanted to teach her to roll over, but didn't have time. I convinced her to go with voice scoring, in hopes the Olympic Circus Dog Show wouldn't last all night....
So after dinner we all went out to be entertained. Mike had pulled up lawn chairs and the swing for seating the crowd, and was himself perched on top of the stepladder, waving a former highway road work sign that says Stop on one side and Slow on the other. The girlies put Climber through her paces, which mainly consisted of getting her to scamper from the top of the covered sandbox shaped like a little ship to the good metal bench, then the rickety bench, and then through a cardboard box tunnel. She did this with great verve and elan, being that sort of crazy little Border Collie cross.
I think the best part was when she picked up her stick (the one she will only fetch a few times before getting disgusted with you for being such a silly as to keep throwing it away) and carried it along a few jumps. Morrissey tried to take it while Marisa was steerng Climber back the other way. Tug O War time! So one girl was pulling the leash and the other the stick, while Climber growled and fought from atop the plastic ship's deck. We were all laughing so hard by this point we could hardly see for the tears in our eyes, so we almost missed the finale when Climber said, 'Fine, have it, then!' and let go, sending both girls tumbling backwards!
You just can't get that kind of quality entertainment in the big city!
Mike got the idea over the weekend to set up a dog show. More of a circus act, really, with Climber as the main attraction. What with one thing and another, it didn't work out for a full family attendance until tonight. (And sadly, Nigel missed it, as he is still working in Denver M through F.)
Damaris and the kids were over, and Mike enthusiastically let the girls join his troupe. At one point as I was fixing dinner, Marisa came and asked me for paper so we could all have number cards to hold up and score Climber on her tricks. She also confided that they had wanted to teach her to roll over, but didn't have time. I convinced her to go with voice scoring, in hopes the Olympic Circus Dog Show wouldn't last all night....
So after dinner we all went out to be entertained. Mike had pulled up lawn chairs and the swing for seating the crowd, and was himself perched on top of the stepladder, waving a former highway road work sign that says Stop on one side and Slow on the other. The girlies put Climber through her paces, which mainly consisted of getting her to scamper from the top of the covered sandbox shaped like a little ship to the good metal bench, then the rickety bench, and then through a cardboard box tunnel. She did this with great verve and elan, being that sort of crazy little Border Collie cross.
I think the best part was when she picked up her stick (the one she will only fetch a few times before getting disgusted with you for being such a silly as to keep throwing it away) and carried it along a few jumps. Morrissey tried to take it while Marisa was steerng Climber back the other way. Tug O War time! So one girl was pulling the leash and the other the stick, while Climber growled and fought from atop the plastic ship's deck. We were all laughing so hard by this point we could hardly see for the tears in our eyes, so we almost missed the finale when Climber said, 'Fine, have it, then!' and let go, sending both girls tumbling backwards!
You just can't get that kind of quality entertainment in the big city!
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