Treyce. Love At First Sight

What can I say?

It was love at first sight.

I had never seen a more noble looking dog up close before. I got down on the floor with her, and I saw nothing of a killer dog about her. She was just a big, beautiful, middle-aging dog with beautiful flashing and the sweetest saddest eyes on the planet. In that instant of love, I told my daughter that anytime she and her future husband were needing to go out of town, I would dog-sit her. And I did! A lot! At least for their last year in school. And when they took Treyce away and moved to the next state, I visited them (The kids don't know, but I was really visiting Treyce, HA HA!!) as often as I could. And dog-sat her there.

She did have her issues, especially about being left alone indoors. She suffered from separation anxiety, and took it out on anything that got in her way. Doors, food on the counter, window blinds. You get the picture. She didn't like being left alone.

On the day my future-son-in-law gave his oral defense of his dissertation, Treyce was left alone. No one was in the house and Treyce wanted OUT. Of course, there were other roommates in the house most of the time, so even though my daughter and/or her beau might be gone, someone was often there.

But not this day. This day, it was a big day for my future son-in-law. Fortunately, the call didn't come in until afterwards. You know, when everybody goes out and celebrates the successful defense of a PhD. Someone in the neighborhood checked Treyce's tag and called the number listed.

Turns out, not only was Treyce left alone, but the kitchen door had been left open. Picture this, if you will: An open kitchen door, a kitchen counter, and a screened open window. Trust me when I say that none of those were impediments to her ultimate freedom. She jumped on the counter, pushed out the screen, and away she went.

It made for an unusually exciting day! An when the kids left Eastern North Carolina (and took Treyce with them) they had to replace most of the window blinds in the house.

I don't feel sorry for them. They took Treyce away from me!

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