A Shocking Story Continued

Hey it's Brandi the farm dog again. 

I have some more to say about life around here. Remember last time I told you  all about my Pink Leash and how it makes the beeping and the shocking stop? It's pretty amazing actually. Well, my people don't get my Pink Leash out very much, and I very muchly wish they would because that means I get to go to the pond with them. But they don't, and so since my collar was beeping and beeping again, and since I know what that means, I didn't go to the pond anymore - not by myself, not when I heard a mower going down there, and not when my people were down there. I could hear them because I have really good ears, you know, but I just couldn't handle the thought of what followed the beeping and so I stayed put.

Until one day when it was hotter than a firecracker. I could hear my people at the pond, and they were laughing and splashing and hooting and hollering, and I really don't exactly know how it happened but I got a running start and kept running and I heard the beeping and I felt the awful SHOCK and I just kept running and then the shock stopped and I kept running straight down the road, across the road and it didn't even hurt my paws like the rocks do, down the hill, and I tell you fellers, I just nailed that pond with a gargantuous splash that watered everyone on the beach. I thought they would be so happy because I cooled them all off, yes I surely did, but oh no they were not one bit happy with me. They called me Bad Dog, and my Very Favorite Person Tori found a rope and she TIED ME UP. Can you believe she did that? I mean, I don't get tied up, ever, and I hardly knew what to think. I couldn't swim or run around, and everyone else did, and they just ignored me. I was grievously vexed about the whole deal and for sure it wasn't worth the shock when I couldn't even swim. BUT, I was with my people, and that made everything better. If they really didn't want me there, they would have taken me back home right away; but they didn't send me home, so it really was good that I suffered the shock and joined them. I'm sure they were missing me.

Well, my people are sure hard to understand, because after that time when I suffered a nasty shock to join them and I cooled them all down so nice and everything, you would just think they would take me with them all the time, wouldn't you? I mean, I know they were so glad I was there because they let me stay! But, my Favorite Person Tori took my collar with the Box off of me. She said it wasn't waterproof, whatever that means. And she said the power wasn't turned very high and when she got a new collar she would turn the power to high, whatever that means. And then, after that, every single time they went to the pond, they locked me in the laundry room or in my crate. Which isn't all that bad, because I love being on my nice soft laundry room rug and in my crate, but it's sure confusing because they act like they don't want me with them at the pond. And I know they really do want me there, because last time they let me stay even though I was late getting there. 

And then a few days ago, Tori got me this super nice new collar, and it has a Box on it and it beeps when I go close to the road and she said the power is turned to high and I should stay home. Well that's what she says, but I'm not sure that's really what she means. Like I said, my people are hard to understand.  Next time they go without me, I just might have to endure the shock and join them anyway. Sometimes they get forgetful, see, and I know they love it when I'm there even if I do get there late. Because as you know, I'm pretty irresistible.