Saturday, December 5, 2009

Canine

Just sitting there in the backyard, a waggling tail, short legs and a face you could say is smiling. Her yellow-ish white coat in a tanned vanilla resemblance shinning under the radiant sun. She runs back and forth across the backyard chasing birds and bees.
“oh what a cute puppy, what´s her name?” Anne asks,
“Coco” is my reply,
she adds “oh like Coco Chane-“,
“No” -I interrupt- “just plain Coco”.
She wags her tail as she hears her name, and continues running. Looks like she caught something, holding her two front paws bellow her head as if keeping a treasure and guarding the entrance. She lifts them off to take a peek and away flies the little bee that she held so tightly within her grasp.
She jumps up in the air as if she wants to take a bite out of it and snaps her mouth shut, she does this several times until the bee is way out of reach. She pauses to scratch behind her left ear with her hind leg, and then again spots this malevolent little critter and devises a plan to end with his evil plot to, to.. do what.. it, it should not be or.. well she´s determined to catch him, and that´s what she´ll do. She runs, spins, jumps and barks, one way or another, she will catch it!
For a moment it does seem like she has him again, she peeks through her little paws and sees nothing, so she jumps up and searches the skies, there he is! Shes got him right where she wanted. She makes a move and jumps in the air and snatches him within her jaws and he vanishes, to then appear again as she opens her mouth.
“Coco” i call her, “it´s time for your walk”.
She runs straight for the door waging her tail running to evade me as if I´m out to catch her. I open the door and she dashes for the entrance door, I turn to get her leash but at that same moment my sister comes in from school so the four legged creature makes a run for it and heads for the street. I run out behind her and seeing an oncoming car i call for her, before she tries to cross but its too late,
“Coco!”.
The driver slams the brakes but the little dogs fate was already set.