Grab and Dash
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: My Hilarious, Heroic, Human Dog
By Loretta D. Schoen

Every snack you make, every meal you bake, every bite you take... I’ll be watching you.
~Author Unknown

It was the end of a typical busy workday, and I was preparing for the next day by showering and blow-drying my hair. My husband Thad was finding comfort in his favorite snack: a prune Danish with a glass of milk. He settled himself in bed to watch an evening show on TV and enjoy his well-deserved dessert. But our German Shepherd/Collie mix, Roxie, saw this as an invitation to play ball.

Nuzzling him with the ball in her mouth, Thad realized that ignoring her was futile. So, he got out of bed, set the pastry and milk on his bedside table, and began throwing the ball down our long hallway. Roxie would retrieve it and bound into our bedroom, only to find that Thad had disappeared. As she came farther into the room, Thad would rise from his crouched position at the foot of the bed and roar like a bear ready to attack! He would wrestle the ball from Roxie’s mouth and throw it back down the hall again. (Keep reading)