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Hi gang, Its me. Peewee! |
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The Country Dog Goes to the
City
My puppy
Tonka, the golden retriever, just finished telling me a story about her trip to
the big city. I want to share that story with you.
Tonka was
born in Elbow Lake Minnesota, a small town not far from where the
At 13 weeks
of age she moved here to the Ranch to protect my relatives and me. She was so
little and cute everyone liked her. Then she started to grow.
At six
months old she was full of pep and energy. She ran all over the Ranch. She
visited most of our neighbors and made friends with all of the other dogs on
Occasionally
she would ride into town with my friends Pat and George, and she usually
behaved pretty well. But when she got around strangers she would jump up and
down like a circus dog. She could jump several feet into the air with very
little effort.
Well, people
started calling her by her nickname—“snarvely”--because as she jumped around
she would make snarling noises.
Last Friday,
my friends had to journey to
Most of the
drive she slept quietly. But when they drove into the outskirts of the city,
she sat up in the back seat with her paws on the back ledge and her nose glued
to the back window. Her head would turn left and right and then snap quickly
back to the left again as the car passed new things to see. She said there were
big bridges the car drove under at the same time lots of cars were driving on
top of it. And she says she saw buildings that were taller than more than two
of our old Norway pine trees. People were running in and out of doors
everywhere.
Big cars
with lots of people drove by the car and left clouds of black smelly smoke. She
said they are called buses. She said all of the ground was covered with hard
white or black stuff and she couldn't see any grass. [I don't think us Emu
would like living there!]
She said she
even went into this tall building where the car drove around and around as they
drove higher into the sky. She said even she started getting dizzy. She called
that building a parking ramp. I don't understand why people want to park cars
in a building like that?
Tonka stayed
in the car to protect it. All day long cars went around and around the place
she was trying to sleep. At night, Tonka's car left the city and went to see
grandma and grandpa. Again, Tonka sat on the seat with her paws on the back
ledge and her nose pressed against the window. She said there were more lights
than she had ever seen before. The city was so brightly lit up that Tonka could
not see the stars. I wouldn't like not being able to see the stars.
But Tonka's
excitement wasn't over yet. While loading the car the next day in front of this
tall building where people rent rooms to stay overnight, Tonka was the only one
in the car. A person in a large truck called an expedition tried to drive into
the parking ramp but got stuck because the truck was too tall for the entryway.
So it backed -up the down ramp and right into Tonka's car. The jolt threw Tonka
to the floor, smashed in the front lights and pushed the car into our friends
knee. Tonka didn't like that part of the city at all.
Luckily the
car was driveable and my family came right home to the Ranch where we only have
five of six vehicles. Tonka was so glad to get back home. She sat outside and
called to all of her friends. She especially called to her boyfriend Stub. He
is a Black Labrador retriever who lives next door. {His name is Stub because he
is so stubborn.} On the Ranch next door means he lives about 800 feet away.
Tonka says it is so nice to be where you can run without black and white hard
streets and people everywhere.
Tonka said
it was fun to see all of the stars once again shining clearly in the nighttime
sky.
Well gang, I
see my food is coming so I have to finish this letter to you.
I will write
again real soon.
I have my own e-mail address, so write me at peewee@emumagic.com and let
me know what you like.
Stop back soon for more of my
stories!
See Ya!
Peewee!
Photographs courtesy of Pictures
by George @ gmciii@emumagic.com All Rights Reserved
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