She said she felt bad for us, having to live our lives ten
inches off the ground. That the
view “must be so boring.” Oh, Tillie
Lou’s mom, you couldn’t be more wrong.
Have you spent time down here in this doggy wonderland of sights and
scents? I think not! I don’t know about Tillie, but I’d much prefer the view
from down here.
Up there, where
you guys live with your heads in the clouds, it’s all air and open spaces…boring. Down here there are blades of grass
with pee-mail, dropped morsels of picnics, mud crawling with wriggly worms,
sticks to munch, flowers to sniff, and puddles to splash in. I don’t have to sit at my computer to
catch up with friends via email– I get to do it at the park, sniffing bushes
and branches marked by friends and answering back with a quick squat. And some of those socks you guys wear
make for entertaining views themselves.
I guess it would be nice to stare at something other than your ankles
while we’re walking and to be able to reach the kitchen table. But don’t feel bad for me. It’s a whole different world down here
and I literally get to watch the grass grow.
By the way, mom, you might want to vacuum under your
sofa. For someone as obsessively
clean as you, you do not want to see what’s under there!
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