Pepper Must Have Been Distracted

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!