Pablo Died Today - Part 2 (standard:other, 2742 words) [2/2] show all parts
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Pablo finds adventure - He fits well into his life in Virginia.

PABLO DIED TODAY 

PART II 

SHERWOOD FOREST  - VIRGINIA 

NOVEMBER 1968 - APRIL 1979 

LIFE IN SHERWOOD FOREST 

I think the trip to Virginia was uneventful.   I was drunk for most of
the way ? I only got up one time to stagger to the litter box and take 
a leak.   Even Grumpy did not bother me ? Babe, as always, stood up the 
entire trip taking in all the scenery and occasionally barking.  Warren 
would tell her to "shut?up"  ? she would bark again.   Each time he 
would tell her to be quiet, she would bark again ? but softer.  After 
about ten times of this Babe was just grunting and after the last 
"clash of wills," Babe waited for about ten minutes before she had the 
last word ? a barely audible "woof."  While Babe was the best trained, 
best behaved and, to hear Warren and Kay, the most intelligent dog in 
the world ? the test of will power I described above had been going on 
for years.  Warren had never won!  Kay did not participate. 

We arrived at Kay and Warren's new home late in the evening on Halloween
? the furniture was to arrive the next day.   I was relegated to the 
basement while Babe and Grumpy had the run of the house.   Kay and 
Warren went out to dinner with Kay's family and spent the night with 
them.  While with Kay's family, they offered to let Kay's Dad have me.  
Her Mother adamantly refused to have a cat in the house.   Grumpy had 
visited her on a few of Kay and Warren's trips from North Carolina and 
had managed to give all cats a bad name. 

On one visit to Kay's parents home, Grumpy had been the perfect guest ?
quiet and out of sight.  He used his litter box faithfully and didn't 
bite or scratch anyone, until about thirty minutes before they were 
leaving.  All the bags had been packed and everyone was saying their 
"goodbyes."  Grumpy decided to show his ass.   He pissed and crapped in 
the kitchen floor, ran up the door facing and knocked one of Kay's 
mother's prized plants off its hanger  (the planter broke when it hit 
the floor).  Somewhere in the whirlwind of confusion he managed to give 
Kay's Mom a pretty bad scratch.   I think that was the last time Grumpy 
"gone to visit Grandma." 

In the first few weeks in our new home, several things happened that was
to change my life, not to mention Kay and Warren's.   First Kay and 
Warren decided they had found a "good home" for me ? theirs.  I decided 
a cat's life was not that great and I decided to become a German 
shepherd.   Look at Babe!  Finally, in view of my new status, I adopted 
Kay and Warren as my Mom and Dad. 

  Click the button below to send tAs a German shepherd, I took my
"watchdog” duties seriously.   One Saturday morning the deliveryman 
from the dry cleaners came by to return some clothes. Mom went to 
answer the door and I followed.   When she opened the door and asked 
the deliveryman to step inside, I told him to come no further than the 
foyer.  He misunderstood  ? he told Mom he would wait outside and that 
he had never seen such a ferocious cat.  With my hackles up, my lips 
curled up over my teeth and the deep growl I had mastered, he was 
convinced that, while I didn't look so much like a German Shepherd, I 
had all the perquisites for a fine watchdog Mom was unable to change 
his mind about coming inside.  She was really unsure about whether or 
not I was going to attack the stranger. 

One of the nice things about being a German shepherd was being able to
hangout with other dogs.   Every Saturday morning when Mom and Dad were 
home, they would let Babe out in the back yard and tell her to stay in 
the yard. She always obeyed ? I didn't.   The other dogs of the 
neighborhood would always come by.  At first they wanted to jump my 
ass.  After Babe, somewhat forcefully, convinced several of them that 
any course of action, which might cause me bodily harm, would be 
prejudicial to their own overall health and probably downright 
injurious to their bodies.   They began to show me the respect I 
deserved ? Babe didn't get all the credit either.   I had left a number 
of them nursing bleeding ears, split noses and bruised egos. 



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