Dangerous Dog

Bosco, perhaps one of the most docile dogs I've ever met who gleefully greets all guests at our door, seems to hate the mail carrier. Each day, Bosco, with Darby following to be cool, barks as angrily as I've ever heard him at the mailperson as our letters are delivered. Bosco is obedient in almost every way, but no matter how many times we shame and yell at him, Bosco will still put on a ferocious face to intimidate the mail carrier away. It's like a comic strip: he wants to terrorize the mailperson much like Garfield, or perhaps Dagwood.

Though it's embarrassing to watch your dog vehemently hate someone, (I do hope it's not bigotry,) the worst it has done is cause a brief but noisy disruption on a daily basis. Since the mail carrier never acknowledged the barking, it didn't seem to have long term consequences until today when we received a DANGEROUS DOG notification in the mailbox. We had to fill out a form identifying our dog and potential problems it might pose to the postperson. Apparently, the barking has finally provoked the mail carrier to shake in eir blue knee high socks.

Warning! DANGEROUS DOG ALERT!

Terrier? More like Terror!

Truthfully, though the content was true, posting this story was for no other reason than to include a picture of our cute dog. I am too ashamed to turn this blog into an "awww, look how cute the doggy is" site, so I manufactured an excuse.

With that in mind, rather than forcing some sort of similarly pointless story about how Darby plays catch well tomorrow, why don't I just include an adogable photo of Darby in a baseball cap, too: