Despite our subtle hints, Mom and Dad continue to refuse to share their food with us.  How they can resist our pleading big brown eyes is beyond me.  But because of their selfishness, Asa and I have been left with no other choice than to make a kitchen agility course in the hopes of obtaining ill-gotten food.

Being a rather lazy and unimaginative puppy, Asa has decided to claim the “Licky Machine,” also known as the dishwasher, as his domain.  He will patiently lay directly in front of it, waiting for the moment it is opened to reveal it’s delicious treats inside.  Sometimes he is disappointed with the smell of clean dishes, but he has a 50/50 chance that dirty dishes are inside waiting to be licked clean.  Personally, I really don’t understand why Mom and Dad just don’t let us lick the dishes clean.  It would be way more environmentally friendly, by saving them precious well water, not to mention would save them money on detergent that pollutes our rivers and oceans.  But I digress…

I am more ambitious than Asa.  By sprawling out as wide as I can, I have claimed the high traffic area between the refrigerator, stove, and cupboards.  Thus I maximize my chances of being able to catch some accidentally dropped food.  I see the five second rule as a silly challenge devised by humans.  Five seconds?!  HA!  I’ve been known to whisk food away in less than two seconds.  I may not be good at fetch, but here my eye / mouth coordination has been fine tuned to a science.

Directly in front of the stove is a shared space for Asa and myself.  Here the stakes are much higher.  Although there is an increased possibility of scoring food, there is also the chance of overstepping our boundaries and getting banished to the living room to hopelessly watch them eat.  Ok, so more often than not, we blow it and end up being ordered to the other room.  But luckily for us Mom and Dad are always eating.  So it is just a matter of time before we can enact our kitchen agility course again!