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May 28, 2005
Ideas
Good idea: sending my hounds to the groomers during our yard sale because 1) they smell vile and 2) it keeps them from howling at the customers.
Bad idea: stopping at the Taco Bell drive-thru on the way home from picking up the dog at the groomers.
Bad idea: snapping a cameraphone photo of adorable less-vile Basset hound, dozing in the passenger seat while waiting for food, which will certainly arrive mid-photo session.
Bad idea: being a Taco Bell employee who stuffs one too many Club Chalupas into my bag.
Really bad idea: trying to wrangle bag, cameraphone, and purse while pulling away from the drive-thru, causing spare Club Chalupa to fall from the bag onto the driver's side floor, where it will lay open during the entire drive home.
Really bad idea, even for a dog: being such a lazy hound that you can't be bothered to wake up and risk causing a wreck because, good lord, hound, what's with your sense of smell?? - there's a free, open, unattended Club Chalupa on the floor!!! Chicken! Bacon! Taco Bell aura!
Good idea: checking hound's pulse and make sure she's not dead because there's a free Club Chalupa just a few feet from her and she's not responding!!! The dog who once stuck her head in a 35-gallon vat of barbeque beans and ate until several people drug her away!
Good idea, dog groomer's edition: slipping a little Xanax to the dogs as soon as their owner leaves.
Probably not a good idea: since Club Chalupa is lying on its wrapper and not on the truck floor, putting it back together. Nobody will notice, right?
Always a bad idea: Taco Bell
Always a really, really bad idea: even considering eating Taco Bell off the floor after the dog refuses it.
Posted by Robin at May 28, 2005 03:41 PM
Comments
Good points!
Posted by: indigo at May 28, 2005 07:44 PM
Sometimes, though, you just gotta have Taco Bell. I worked there for three-plus years in high school and I still have to have it, on occasion. (I worked there when they still made the beans from scratch and they were fanatical about cleanliness.)
But maybe your dog knows something humans don't?
Posted by: m at May 28, 2005 09:28 PM
In retrospect, I'm not worried about Chloe's unresponsiveness to the free Chalupa. This is the same dog who was once sleeping so deeply that my mom stuck a piece of turkey in the dog's mouth and it took her 15 minutes to sleep-eat it. If she can't be bothered to wake up and eat food that's been placed in her mouth for her, well, I should have known that the Chalupa was safe.
Posted by: Poppy at May 29, 2005 09:20 AM
