Operation: Destroy The Water Hose

Mom and Dad just got a new extendable hose for the yard. Great for them, they can water their garden, give us drinks, but here’s my problem. When they play and shoot us with water, Kaleo can just shake it off. If I get wet, it feels like I’m carrying a lead jacket with all my fur. I like drinking water, not wearing a small lake. I swear I felt a bird bathing on my back before. So tonight is the night we destroy the hose once and for all.

I've enrolled Kaleo for tonight’s operation—I told him that the hose is a snake. He believed me. We’re going to strike at 9 pm when Mom and Dad are winding down in their bedroom. We’ve already dug up a hole behind the house to bury the “snake.”  I’ve also enlisted a couple of neighbor dogs to keep watch as our operation is active. If this goes well, I’ll never have to play sponge again.

The plan is simple. Slip out the front door, avoid the motion lights, bite the hose off at the nozzle (head for Kaleo), drag it to the hole, and bury it forever. I’ve gone over the plan about ten times, and Kaleo seems to remember something about a rake. Close enough. Okay, now as soon as our parent’s light to go off,… Uh oh, footsteps. What does Mom want?

“Night, night  Aspen, get plenty of sleep for our trip to the lake tomorrow.”

Shoot, I forgot about the lake—new plan. Operation “Drain the Lake.”