Sunday, I noticed an unpleasant odor emanating from my pooches. "Whew! Jacky boy! You stink! I don't know what you've been rolling in!" I barely petted him. Don't want carcass slime on your hand when you're heading for a 44 oz Diet Coke.
Monday, Juno pranced up to me with a pelvic girdle in her mouth. You know, the connected hip bone sockets from some critter, without the actual hip bones. I'm sure she has assorted hip bones in her house, but I doubt they belong to this animal, or are a matching pair. So enamored of her pelvic girdle was Juno that she couldn't put it down for cat kibble! She stood there looking at me, pelvic girdle in her mouth, then at Jack, then ran to her house, then back to me. Finally she entered her house. I couldn't see the door of it from where I stood, but I heard the bones rattle.
Juno is The Bone Collector. She could have had a movie made about her life, if not for that dadblasted Angelina Jolie and Denzel Washington stealing her title! Juno never met a bone she didn't like. A lot.
I don't want to show you a picture of her house, because, well, you know how it is when company comes over, and you don't want them to know that you're really a big slob, and you stash the dirty dishes in the unworking dishwasher. Yes. I hear you. "But Mrs. Hillbilly Mom, you don't HAVE a dishwasher!" That's correct. But in college I did. And for our weekly weekend parties, you can bet my two roommates and I made creative use of it!
Anyhoo... that's the moment the light bulb went on over my head. JUNO was the stinker! From laying around on rotting bone-flesh! Sure, some of her collection is sunbleached and meatless. But others are in varying stages of decay. Hick says he needs to clean out her house, but I know Juno will have an anxiety attack! She wouldn't even lay that pelvic girdle down at her feet long enough to eat cat kibble. I can imagine her treasures being flung all willy-nilly over the porch rail, and the whimpering that would ensue.
How I long for the days when my Sweet, Sweet Juno smelled sweetly of cedar chips, her bedding. Now she sprawls in a nest of bones. And possibly one antler.
I see you have a dilemma on your hands with all those stinky bones and I have no solutions for you either. Perhaps Hick could just toss out the stinkiest ones? And bury them somewhere so she doesn't bring them back right away.
ReplyDeleteRiver,
ReplyDeleteFarmer H says he's going to toss them down the sinkhole! I said that Juno might fall in and be lost forever, thrashing to keep her head above water in the underground water table until she lost strength and sunk! Farmer H said, "She ain't gonna fall in." As if he has a crystal ball. Actually...he probably DOES have a crystal ball. He has one of everything else.
I actually DO have a crystal ball & I can't see Farmer H cleaning up Juno's house!!!
ReplyDeletefishducky,
ReplyDeleteTrue, Farmer H did not give a firm date for when he expected to accomplish this feat. Talk is cheaper than a FREE buffet at a casino.
When Wall-E was a young dog and still had his kennel under the end table in the living room, I noticed a bad odor coming from his lair. Gavin had been for a visit and both his mom and I noted that Gavin had stinky feet. He lost a pair of sneakers while he was here and Adrienne said not to worry about them, his feet were growing so fast that he needed a new pair anyway. Wall-E had stolen the smelly shoes, along with some socks and underwear of his boy and stashed them in his kennel! HeWho did not clean that up, I did. Wall-E was sad, the other dogs were glad. Toni Louise has quite the collection of peanut butter jars behind her master's chair. No bones, though.
ReplyDeleteKathy,
ReplyDeleteThat probably smelled as bad as Farmer H's sweaty hat! Toni Louise and her peanut butter jars make me think of my sister the ex-mayor's wife's old dog, Susie. She got her head stuck in an opaque plastic giant mayonnaise jar, and was running around the yard bumping into trees. Susie, of course. Not my sister the ex-mayor's wife!