Living Alarm

Julie — I’m not sure that you have heard about my personalized Kaper alarm clock. It works like this: my dear husband lets dogs outside in the morning, in groups — the house dogs go out together, then he lets three of them back inside, and lets the “kennel” dogs out (our dogs are rotated in and out on a regular basis). As soon as a certain GSD puppy is let back into the house (she’s one of the full-time house dogs), she blasts through the house, into the bedroom, and throws herself at full-throttle onto the bed, and unfortunately, onto my head. Usually when this happens, it’s followed by Mike calling her and she retreats to her crate for another hour or so, grinning the whole way, I’m sure. She does enjoy a good joke, and she, and my husband, apparently find this quite amusing. I, however, find it much less so, as you might imagine. This morning, I was half awake when she pulled her leap-onto-mom’s-head routine. I waited for Mike to call her. And waited. And. Waited. Finally (the entire time she’s pawing at my now-covered head, whining, attempting to lick my face, BTW), I uncover my face and find my ‘real’ alarm clock, which reveals that it is 2:50 in the friggin’ a.m. The little bugger has opened her crate door!!!!!!!!!! Stayed tuned for more adventures as I attempt to outsmart the living alarm clock. First effort will be simple snaps on the crate door…. — Anne