Doggie Smarts (Six Sentence Story)

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Mimi had gotten in the habit, when puttering around in the Six Sentence Cafe and Bistro kitchen while Hūnga was in there, of speaking to the dog the same way she would talk to anyone else.

She knew he might have trouble understanding certain words, but she also knew he spoke "human" well enough to understand the intent and would have pitted his vocabulary against that of many so-called educated people who couldn't talk a lick of sense.

"The frequency with which you have to take puppies out for potty breaks is inversely proportional to the number of piddle accidents you want to clean on any day," she was saying, "but as for you, my grown-up dog friend, you have sense to use your dog door if you grow desperate enough not to wait for your daily constitutional."

Hūnga was watching her but listening beyond the room they were in, and when he heard a tell-tale sound, his whole back end began to wag as it always did when he was excited about something; Mimi noticed it and reached for the leash and harness.

As the Gatekeeper came through the swinging door, Hūnga launched himself at the man who was ready for it and you couldn't have told which was the more excited at the meeting, man or dog.

As Mimi smiled mischievously and handed the man the dog's gear, she teasingly told Hūnga, "You should be flattered, Hūnga, no person born can command this man but he bows to your every whim," and she heard the Gatekeeper still laughing as he and the dog went out the door for their walk.

Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Frequency.      

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