Laser and the box/Karen Christensen, January 2009

Sue-errr, you wantsta hear 'bout my favoritest toy? It lives outside the car when we go to fielders where the clanga-box is. I love the clanga-box! It the door to my TOY! Sometimes it's really hot out, sometimes it's really cold, or rainy, or even snowy but if the TOY is there it's always JUST RIGHT for me!!! The toy runs down a long hallway track and three of my bestest friends and me (sometimes onny one or two, and sometimes it's my wonderful sisser MMMMMM) and it makes TWO noises that are so speshul, one is a funny grindy vvvvrrrriiip!-vrip!-vrip! noise that maybe isnt the TOY itself but only makes when the TOY runs down the outdoors hallway and the other noise is sooooo gooders like a meow and a honk and a squeak and a chitterwaul all at once.

Sometimes the TOY kicks sand inna my eyes, sometimes it get all mudders and goobery an' I makes it more goobery when it stops and me and my friends pile on it. If I get it just right I gets some TOY in my toofers through the face crate and then I KILLLLLLLLL it shake-a sooooo hard and it goes mwonkamwonkaqueal and I just want it all for me so I lie down on top of it and hug it with all my might and then Moot (or somebody else sometimes, dunno or care why) hasta come and peel me offa it so the other boogies can get to chase it and then I takes someone to the clanga-box again and make them let me in so I can GETTERS again!! I think there's more than one TOY just like this cuz how can there be one in the long hallway and another in a carton in the car and ANOTHER one by the table in the fielders, huh?

I would like a toy like this at home but it makes it kinda speshul about the clanga-box and the hallway and my friends, y'know? Love, Bump.

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Heike's Simba and Malia - "my mudders".

Scarlet Marsicano
"At American K9, in NH, Fernie burst loose from the car while I was walking Fiddle & Liner, bringing Scarlet with her, stinker, & went to the dog park, trapesing through ghastly mud, & me in my running shoes, soaked through my socks. They sure had a blast, those 4, on the high dry end of of the dog park, & said they couldn't come to me back through that M U D, so I had to slosh through it to get them. They had a wonderful time."

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