Explaining to Otis the yellow lab Carpe Diem does not apply here.

[marble falls]

1. I have a cat who does not get up on the counters or get into the trash to steal food. Not even now ...

... when the vet has put him on a diet with food he does not like. He hates it so much, I can use the feral's cat food as a 'treat' for him.

There's something wrong with that cat.

Now Jack the Dog was never a suck up. He'd eat Hershey kisses foil and all. If we didn't want Jack to get into it, we'd have to safeguard it.

Great dog, though: he could actually herd cats. If they got out the front door, we'd say, "Jack, go get them" and he would. He wanted to herd the buffalo a farmer up the road had. I had to restrain him.

On Halloween, I'd tell him, "Jack, go get them", and he'd 'push' the kids up to the door. One trick or treat I put Jack onto a toddler and mom coming up the path and the mom went running in fear and left the kid. After then it was only no trick only treat. I felt so bad for the mom.

That little Westy was the best dog ever, no slur on on Dunc and crew, who are all close runner ups.