lucyoncolorado

In which Lucy misbehaves, morphs into Morgan Freeman, then goes missing in the woods...


I was sitting in the living room with A who was holding a sandwich. Lucy walked over to him, snatched it out of his hand, and ran off with it to the bedroom. I followed her and told her to drop it, but she just ran off with the sandwich. Finally, I caught her and pried her mouth open and started to snatch it out of her mouth. She growled at me. I was stunned. Lucy has always been gentle with her food. She’s stubborn sometimes, but never aggressive to people and always lets you take things right out of her mouth. I taught her to be that way because an aggressive dog is dangerous to both people and to herself. Aggressive dogs get put down. The best thing you can do for a dog is to teach it to not be aggressive to people. I started to feel really guilty that I had gotten slack on my training. I’d let Lucy be possessive with her ball around other dogs. I’d overlooked it when she didn’t come when I called her. She’s lately been jumping up on furniture. Now she was stealing food and growling. I’d become a bad dog owner because I’d grown so comfortable around her.

If I was going to save her, I needed to be a strong leader. I reached for the sandwich again and she growled again. This time, I shouted “No!” and snatched it right out of her mouth without fear, pushing her to the ground. She cowered and I stood over her and told her to roll over. Once she was completely submissive, I showed her the sandwich and gave her the command to leave it. I told her “good girl” and gave her a hug. She reached her arms around me and hugged me too. Suddenly, I noticed that her hands were on my butt. I pushed her away and saw that she was Morgan Freeman. I asked him if he just grabbed my butt, and he said it was an accident. I didn’t want to believe that Lucy would try to cop a feel, so I tried to hug her again. Morgan Freeman did it again. I was heartbroken. Somehow, Lucy and Morgan Freeman were the same person. I was really upset because I realized on the one hand that Morgan Freeman is a person, and you can’t make a person submit to another person and expect him to love you no matter how well you treat him. So I understood that he would be manipulative and scheme and try to do things behind my back and then act submissive to my face. This meant that we didn’t have a real relationship and I was confused because it seemed that Lucy and I had always been happy. She was a well-behaved and happy dog and we had a great relationship. I could not figure out what had changed. I looked carefully at Morgan Freeman and realized he must be someone else’s dog. This gave me some relief, but then I wasn’t sure where my Lucy had gone off to.

I ran outside and found myself in the woods near my father’s cabin. Mott was there with the new puppy Nac, only instead of one puppy Nac was eight puppies. I knew that Mott and Lucy had been running around the woods together but I didn’t see where Lucy was. Mott and I rounded up all the puppies and locked them in the back of a truck, then we ran out to the road to look for Lucy. My mom insisted that I put Mott on a leash because she didn’t want Mott to run out in front of a car. Then I started to worry that Lucy would get hit by a car herself, and told my father that if he found her crushed and suffering on the side of the road that he should shoot her to put her out of her misery. But just as I was starting to think the worst, she came running out of the woods. She and Mott started rounding up the puppies who were once again loose in the woods. I tried to give Lucy a hug to make up for the fight we had earlier, but Lucy has never been much of a lap dog and really just wanted to run around.