Samwise and Emily are currently with Tracy and Caitlin at Ultimutt Cut for their bi-monthly grooming. Oh, how Emily dislikes being left behind. Samwise is more resigned to it and accepts his fate with his usual calm. He approaches like a knight unafraid, dare I say, even proudly, open to the adventure beyond the door. If not leashed, however, Emily refuses to enter. She’s a stubborn soul, very much like me in this way.
While Tracy and I catch up with news from each other's lives and observe the temperature of gentrification in the mountains, Sam sniffs around, seeking clues about who's been in recently. He is forever the scout, checking out the landscape. Emily, on the other hand, knows abandonment is near. She grunts at me repeatedly (she's not a whiner) and jumps up on me, shoving me with her paws, as if to say, "Don't you dare!"
I don't blame her. These are the only hours I'm away from them, except when they sit in Clarence while I run into a store they are not allowed in.
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