My People have two other People who live across so many streets that i don't see them very often. last week, one of them, the female one, came, and she had Another Dog with her! its a pug, named bella. "bella" is latin. romans speak latin. romans sacked carthage (or so i sniffed in david's books). hannibal was from carthage. i don't like latin.

but bella likes me. when she first came by, it was at night, and she was afraid to run around very far in the yard. i've never had Other Dogs in my Yard before, and since she was afraid, i figured that this would be a good time to test out my worldy-wise-dog mode. so, i ran around in places she was afraid to go, rolled in all the best spots she didn't know about,chewed on sticks, barked at the nieghbors, just to show her that i run things, and played with all the toys she had never seen, and otherwise tried to look like christopher hitchens's dog (). it was working really well, but then i looked up and saw that no one was paying any attention to me! they were all playing with and petting this snobbish little purebred pug. so, i tried the aloof-and-dignified mode. i walked around trying to be noticed, but i didn't lower myself to sniffed at by pugs, and i didn't play with her. still didn't work, so i tried the ever-helpful-and-friendly-dog tactic. i ran around, followed people around, and smelled things for them so they wouldn't have to bother, and jumped on them to get my smell on them so they wouldn't have to roll in the grass, and a grabbed the soccer ball and ran with it so they wouldn't have to, and i sniffed bella a whole bunch of times, to save them some trouble. they all just thought i was "excited", so i left them in their ignorance and laid out in the yard with my soccer ball. and they still ignored me.

i have to crate now and go to sleep, because i just spent today taking walks and guarding the house and keeping neighbors in line, and showing bella that i'm the one in charge. i'll write more tomaedfhjhsgdfioyugsdaifygsadhfgjksdhfghjsdafk

(Post continued by Davidus Valerius Caninus Backiardus: Hannibal has again fallen asleep on the keyboard)