Mr. Sneaky!

Early this morning, before sunup, and before The Eternal Squirrel quit glowing—Tony was leaving the ranch, to go to Medina, to drink coffee with his friends, when he found ten large boxes stacked outside our gate! He stopped and loaded all of the boxes inside Buttermilk, before driving to the Old Timer.

When Tony came back home, he told me about finding the boxes, and he had no clue what was in them or who they were from. “Another unexpected delivery,” I remarked.

After breakfast, we went outside to inspect the boxes. After Tony ripped open a few of them we found that they were full of packaged rawhide chew toys and Fed EX had delivered them to our closed gate, and they were from a friend of Kinky’s!

After John had unloaded the heavy boxes into the feed barn, he and I figured, that there must be over two hundred pounds of them!

After John had unpacked the Explorer, I drove over to the Lodge to check on Goat and The Friedmans. Goat was fine, as were the four dogs. As I was about to leave, Goat suggested that I go into Kinky’s bedroom to see what Mr. Magoo had done to Kinky’s bed.

I went into the bedroom, and looked at Kinky’s bed—then I laughed out loud at what I saw! Gooie had been stockpiling! The bedspread was covered with toys, bones, treats and Mr. Magoo’s tennis ball!

“Cousin Nancy,” Goat said. “Gooie’s been doing that ever since Kinky left. I’ve watched him come in here when the other dogs aren’t looking or are outside, and he steals their toys, bones, treats etc. And then Magoo carries them off to Kinky’s bed. And, the rest of the Friedmans are clueless. I’ve handed out, at least, one box of treats this morning and most of them are in there.”

“It looks like Magoo has at least a three day supply in there. I’ve got to get my camera from the car and take a picture of this to show to Kinky when he gets back.”