My dog’s absolute favorite chew toy would have to be this
little blue loofah dog (Shaped like a dachshund of course!) with a squeaker
right in the center. He proudly carried this loofah dog all over the house and
buried it under the most special of couch cushions. I know this is my dog’s
favorite chew toy because one day he had torn off the head… and I threw it
away.
I didn’t think anything of it at the time. He has tons of
toys, some even like his loofah dog, but that toy was special. I didn’t notice
at first, but he started wandering around the house over the next couple days;
sniffing and digging as if he were looking for something.
He searched under the couch cushions… He searched in the
closet… He searched in the laundry pile…
But what was he searching for? Finally he flopped down onto
the couch with the most distraught look on his face… that’s when it dawned on
me. That was days ago though, and that little loofah dog was long gone in trash
land somewhere. You can’t tell a dog that though, so I had to come up with a
plan.
It was simple really… just go to the store and buy him a new
one. Except when I returned to Walmart the next day, they had a completely
different set of dog toys out for sale.
I asked one of the saleswomen if she knew when that toy
would be returning or if there were some in the back but she only shrugged her
shoulders. “Products come and go… for all we know it could be a discontinued
toy.” Well I was a mommy on a mission and I had a sad puppy dog to go home too
if I failed.
I set out then, checking all the local retail and pet stores
in the area to ask if they had a little blue loofah dog in stock. My friends
thought I was nuts when they texted me later that day to ask what I was up to,
but they didn’t know the power of the puppy eyes. Finally one of my friends
texted me a link to an Amazon.com listing… Ta Da! She had found it!
Within a couple days my dachshund was bouncing around
happily with his BRAND NEW loofah dog! (Which makes it so much better) Hooray
for happy endings J
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