For that Matter, Am I a Great Dane?

Phoebe stared into the distance, her gaze drifting past the interplay of leaves and their shadows against the back fence. She was a good girl, she had been told this many times. “You’re a good girl,” they would say, and she knew and believed. Yet the words could not content her. Yes, she was a good girl — but was she the goodest girl in the whole wide world? Was she? Was she?

This vexes me.

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8 thoughts on “For that Matter, Am I a Great Dane?

  1. Shan February 23, 2017 / 12:08 pm

    You crack me up!

  2. Ricky's Mom February 23, 2017 / 12:12 pm

    What a beautiful dog.

  3. Kar February 23, 2017 / 12:16 pm

    Not sure if this is a still from Lifetime Movie or a Lifetime Mystery Movie.

    One where the young girl is struggling with her identity when she realizes that she’s not the biological child of beavers or that her best friend, Polly Pelican, binges and purges.

    Or she solves mysteries like the ones with Brook Shields, Lori Loughlin, Lea Thompson, Kelly Martins, etc. “Now why was the cat behind the counter with that shredded power cord? And what does that have to do with the burnt King Cake that they served at the Ladies Auxiliary luncheon? And why was that kilo of Hawaiian organic catnip delivered to Mrs Porcupine’s door the day before she was impaled on a Swiffer?”

    • Smartypants February 23, 2017 / 1:29 pm

      Perfect!…and does she realize yet that her obedience-class teacher is stalking her? He didn’t just show up at Petco by accident!

  4. allein ? February 23, 2017 / 12:26 pm

    I don’t know if I can handle such deep thoughts today.

  5. AJ February 23, 2017 / 12:43 pm

    Good God, reminds me of my days in college reading and analyzing existential novels with their absurdity and angst, especially ones by Camus and Sartre. In the original French. Makes my head hurt just thinking about it. Poor Phoebe, when will she realize that it’s all just a lovely illusion and go with the flow?

  6. Smartypants February 23, 2017 / 6:06 pm

    By the way, this is exactly what my next-door neighbors’ dog looks like, only male. I didn’t see him ’til the other day, but I kept hearing this terrible rumpus on the stairs outside my door – scrambling and thumping (it’s a very steep, narrow flight of stairs) – and now I understand why – getting him up those stairs is like pushing an elephant up a ladder!

  7. warrior rabbit February 23, 2017 / 7:56 pm

    I have always joked about the Lesser Panda having low self-esteeem for just these types of reasons. Oh, how being deemed ‘lesser’ must warp and depress the psyche.

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