I knew a delivery was coming by FedEx on Tuesday. Between 2:00 and 4:00. It was no big deal. Just Amazon stuff, which included some of my regular everyday socks, and a pair of the support stockings like used under my leg velcro wraps. I assumed it was all coming in one box, since I'd checked the option to combine the order for one delivery date. However... they'd already sent another item by itself that arrived MONDAY. They are not very economical in their deliveries, even though I tried to help them!
Anyhoo... FedEx just leaves the stuff on the front porch. They don't even knock anymore. I wasn't exactly waiting for it, but figured I'd bring it inside if it got here before I left for town.
At 2:31 I got an email that my package had been delivered. I had heard the delivery person clomping up the steps, but the dogs didn't bark. I figured they were elsewhere. At 2:48, I went to get the box off the porch right before I left.
There was a gray bag lying about three feet from the box. That was odd. I can't imagine a delivery person would walk all the way up on the porch to set down the box, and toss the bag several feet away. I suspected foul play. CANINE play!
Indeed, when I looked at the gray bag, there were many tiny indentations from TEETH. Not all the way through. But still obvious. It was my pair of support stockings. Which are not cheap! Not REAL expensive. I think around $30. Can't remember. But something I wanted so I can have a clean pair to put on while washing and drying the other pair.
I suppose Pepper nabbed that bag as a chew toy, but got distracted. Probably by Farmer H's new rooster, who struts around the Mansion yard in the evenings, and likes to go under the porch. When I left for town, Pepper came running up out of the woods behind POOLIO.
Later that evening, Jack was under the kitchen window, barking toward that area of the back yard. THEN he took off around the porch, and I heard Pepper baying. Farmer H said they were after the rooster. They charge at him and then back off. Farmer H said they both got a whoopin' for it. I'm sure Jack was ashamed. Pepper, not so much.
Thanks, nameless rooster, for distracting the would-be sock-eater!
6 comments:
Could FedEx be using delivery dogs?! LOL. I am glad your stockings survived. Poor doggies getting a whoopin, I don't miss those days for myself!
jj,
Heh, heh! If so, they must be St. Bernards with big Bassett Hound feet, from the sound of the steps on the front porch!
I doubt the whoopin' had any effect on their behavior. Pepper is so quick that I imagine his was but a glancing blow. Jack is quite sturdy these days, and was probably more insulted by the reprimand than feeling a smart from the hip-smack.
I hope the stockings weren't "teeth nicked", to me $30 is a lot for stockings, but they are the support kind so I'd find the money if I needed them. Have you thought of a caged area for the Fed-Ex deliverers to put packages into? Put a sign on it of course "Deliveries in here please"
River,
We tried that tactic a couple Christmases ago. Farmer H nailed a milk crate to one of the posts that hold up the roof for the carport. With a big cardboard sign above it, saying to leave packages in it. The delivery people walked right past it and left stuff on the porch as usual.
My stockings were fine, no holes. I asked Farmer H to get a cheap cooler to set by the door, so we can put a sign to leave small packages inside it. They'd only need to lift the lid and drop it in.
No dogs to bother packages, but the ten cats can do some damage! The Ring doorbell alerts The Man, and he is the one to rush out to get a package. He likes to get the mail, too. He leads a simple life.
Kathy,
I could imagine the cats shredding packages. When we had five cats, they never had any interest in the packages. And our dogs at the time didn't chew them up, either. Your Man is kind of like a (slightly) more advanced dog!
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