Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Dust Bowl


I’m no sociologist, but I have a theory that there are two kinds of human habitation in our society:

--Dwellings where humans do not bring dogs or cats into their homes (and, as a result, a vacuum only has to be run maybe once a week.)

--Dwellings where humans do live in furry house-sharing semi-harmony with four-legged creatures (and where a human runs a vacuum pretty much constantly.)

We have two dogs in our home. When Buddha or Minnie go outside into the often damp or rainy Northwest weather, we towel them off thoroughly before they come back inside. Still, there is no keeping up with the dust that magically seems to appear in our home.

There’s a woman down the road who is a dog trainer. I wonder what she’d charge to teach our four-leggeds to run a vacuum?