“They just put it in a bowl in front of you? You don’t have to chase it or anything? Oh, and tell me again about the dog bed — is it really soft? I’ll bet it’s really soft, am I right? Dude, you have got the sweetest setup ever! Can I get in on this? Did you have to pay anything?”
Via Imgur.
That’s one foxy lady …
Reminds me of the fable by Jean de la Fontaine, “Le Loup et le Chien” (the Wolf and the Dog). I don’t know if I’m allowed to post the link : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Loup_et_le_Chien (in English: http://www.musee-jean-de-la-fontaine.fr/jean-de-la-fontaine-fable-uk-173.html)
Wow, thank you for sharing that!
Your funny post immediately triggered my school memories 🙂 It was uncannily similar to the Fable.
With the scar in a slightly different place!
lol! 😀
Very cool! That reminds me of a question I already wanted to ask the wordsmiths here – how did ‘Tray’ become a popular old-time name for a dog? (it also appeared in the ‘Weird Christmas Cards’ post back in December). Was it from a popular Victorian story or something?
Good question – I remember the lines of a song “Old dog Tray every faithful…”. I guess the same might be asked of Fido – tho’ I guess that’s a variant of fidelity.
I don’t know where the name comes from, but it was used by Shakespeare in ‘King Lear’ – “The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanche, and Sweetheart, see, they bark at me.”
Fido is from the Latin word fidelis (faithful).
I found a reference from a old issue of Sports Illustrated.
” Tray is believed to have come from the Spanish trae (fetch)”
February 12, 1962, “Show Dogs Names Shouldn’t Happen to A Dog ” by Robert Cantwell
http://www.si.com/vault/1962/02/12/591296/show-dogs-names-shouldnt-happen-to-a-dog
It’s Juniper and Moose – I recognize these two immediately! I know they’ve been featured here before…