Well, we had a nice day today. We took the dog for a walk, then took me Mam on a little sightseeing tour around Cavan. The kids debated whether it really did have 365 lakes and who had bothered counting them, then we drove home to find a rather huffy and red-faced Hubby pacing crossly about.
It turns out that the dog, who was lying in a bony beached-whale kind of way on his bed looking rather guilty (dodgy windscreen-wiper eyebrow action giving him away) and burping a lot, had found the new packs of biscuits that I’d left on the kitchen table (this bit was my fault, apparently) and eaten the bloody lot. Yep, a family pack of Bourbon biscuits, a family pack of custard creams, and a pretty good stab at the entire pack of Salt and Pepper Tuc biscuits too, the fat sod.
Needless to say he got very little sympathy. Well, he shouldn’t be such a pig and we really like Bourbons. In fact, my sum compassionate act has been to walk past him a couple of times as he’s groaning on his bed to make sure he doesn’t puke. ‘I’m not cleaning it up if you do’, I told the remote control eyebrows. ‘So there’.
Now before you start emailing me, yes I know that chocolate can be toxic to dogs, but how much chocolate can there possibly be in Tesco Value Bourbon? Not a lot, I would guess. But just in case, I sent a quick text to C, the oracle on all things greyhoundish, just to check. ‘Ah sure’, came the reply, ‘he’ll be grand. He’ll have a fat day tomorrow but he’ll feel like the cat that’s got the cream. Or the dog that’s got the biscuits’. Indeed.
oh dear, don’t want to be around when they work the way through the system – bin liner at the ready.