The One With Buddy

The other day Jon and I had the funniest thing happen to us. My parents had gone out of town and had asked me if I would come over a couple of times a day to take care of the dog. Of course I said yes seeing as how she really is my dog. For those of you who know her.. cute little Sparkles.. can you believe she is still around?! Crazy I know! Anyway, so Jon and I went over there one morning to let her out. When I got there the landscapers were hard at work. I knew that she might freak out if I put her in the back where they were working so I decided to take her out front. Little Sparkles was sniffing around getting ready to do her thing when this fat little dog came running towards us. I wasn't sure how she was going to handle that and I didn't want her to have a heart attack or anything so I quickly picked her up and headed back inside. The crazy little dog seeing me leave sped up to catch us so naturally so did I. Before I could turn around to shut the door this mangy little mutt was now running through my parents house! I was freaking out! I was yelling for Jon to come help me get this dog out. Jon thought is was pretty funny. He grabbed him and checked out his tags and told me that it was the neighbors and his name was Buddy. Oh I almost forgot to mention..Buddy is probably the ugliest dog I have ever seen. I love dogs, I pretty much love all dogs. I would probably adopt any dog offered to me, but he was so gross. He had these huge bulging eyes, a three to four inch tongue that stuck straight out of his mouth, slobber and boogers all over his smashed little face, and he sounded like a pig. Ya pretty disgusting. But despite all of that I still felt bad for the little guy since it's like 10 million degrees outside and I figured somebody loves him, so Jon and I took him back home. It would be nice if the story ended there but it didn't. Nobody was home of course so Jon decided that he would just stick him back in the back yard. That would have been nice except for it was locked and it was this rod iron fence that would have been hard to jump. I couldn't do it and Jon's ankle is still all messed up. While we were trying to figure out what to do, another black pug came running up to the fence and started in with his little snort/bark thing. His name was Moses. These people didn't have just one of these ugly things, they had two! Anyway, Jon told me to lift Buddy over the fence and hand it off to him so he could lower him to the ground. It worked! Now obviously this sneaky little dog had gotten out before, because there was chicken wire, and metal and wooden stakes lining the bottom of the gate. Maybe they should get a new gate or lock the dogs up or something.. I don't know just an idea. I just hope the next time he figures a way out I'm not around to find him. It made us laugh though.. it was good times. ( That's not an actual picture of Buddy, but it's close)