by Guest » Mon Sep 15, 2014 3:13 am
ohgravity I love orange <3
I'm naming her Tyger.
Sunday, September 14, 2014
I tugged. Hard.
It was only day one, and somehow, Tyger had managed to get herself stuck in the door. I could see that owning a Pinna meant that I had a lot of work ahead of me.
Tyger shook her head wildly, scattering dried mud all over the foyer floor. I groaned. That was going to be a mess to sweep up later.
“Tyger! Stop it!” I shrieked in fustration. The noise made her perk up her ears and stop wiggling. With a heave that made my arms shake, I pulled her through the door. Gravity caused her to fall on top of me, which smelled awful, so I pushed her off, stood up, and surveyed the damage.
I groaned. The floor already looked like it was ready to sprout flowers. I was not about to drag the messy Pinna upstairs, over the nice, clean, white carpet, and into the bathroom to make her get a bath.
Unsurprisingly, it was a lot easier to get Tyger to go outside. She slipped out the front door easily. I had to grab her matted tail to keep her from running away.
I walked out the front door, still with a firm hand on her tail and back. She looked at me with a confused expression, like, “Why did you just put me through that for nothing?”
“Oh, stop it, you,” I muttered at her, just as we got to the gate to our midsize forest backyard. I let her go through. She was yapping with joy and running all over the small “lawn,” aka the tangled mat of congealed crabgrass. I chuckled darkly. Wait until she finds the hose. She’ll be all over that.
I re-entered the house, dashed upstairs, and grabbed some grooming supplies: shampoo, conditioner, soap, and a comb. I sprinted back downstairs and retrieved some heavy-duty, eco-friendly stain remover from under the sink before returning to the yard.
After some searching, I discovered that Tyger loved hammocks and flowerpots. She’d scattered the flowerpots around underneath the potting bench. Luckily none of them was broken, although one had a chip. She was now curled up peacefully, like a little stripy fox, on the hammock near the shrubs at the back of the garden.
I walked just a little up the garden, close to the house, and turned on the faucet for the hose. Tyger perked up her ears and sat up a little. I wiggled the hose coaxingly, making the water fall to the ground in waves. Tyger made a little noise that was almost like a giggle and tried to get off the hammock. It flipped over and she fell.
I watched in horror, expecting that she was injured. She hopped up and rolled in the mud created by the hose. I guess not, then, I thought dryly.
“Stop that!” I shrieked. I pulled her up and began to wash off the mud. She flopped back over and refused to cooperate.
This is going to be hard.