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If you’ll remember from my last article I told you we were in South Carolina awhile ago. Although we had a great time, except for that lazy river debacle, there was another incident that nearly put my husband over the edge.
By Willie Smith Simply Hers Magazine
I hate to kennel our dogs when we go away so a couple of years ago when one of my best friends offered to dog sit; I took her up on it. I thought there would be no more sad, puppy dog eyes, no whimpering, no whining and no worrying. Boy was I wrong! We were still holed up in our motel room avoiding that angry mob from the lazy river when we got “the call”. It was Carol saying Kozmo had run away. He’d somehow gotten out of the fence and ran off into the woods. She said it was really cold, raining like a banshee and she was very upset. She was upset!?!?!? What was I going to tell my husband? He loves that dog. He lives, eats and breathes those two dogs. I knew this would not go over well at all. It didn’t. The news upset my husband so much he headed straight for the bathroom. He said his stomach was upset and he wanted to be close to the toilet, but I knew the truth. Soon he would give me the sad eyes and then I was gonna have to put up with the three Ws; whimpering, whining and worrying.
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Carol called my husband’s sister, Sylvia, hoping she would have some suggestions on where Kozmo might be. Sylvia knew nothing, which I might add is not normal. Much like her brother, Sylvia usually knows everything!! What a sweetie though, she came over in the freezing cold and pouring rain to help look for Kozmo, but he was not to be found. Now Sylvia was frantic so she called her husband, Freddy. He suggested checking the dog pound so off they went, but Kozmo wasn’t there either. My next obvious move was to call my hair stylist, Sally. She’s a real dog lover. You all remember Sally, right? The woman who saved me from the bozo red hair incident? Right, now you remember. Sally checked our neighborhood on her way to work, but she couldn’t find Kozmo either so I posted the news on my Facebook page and now all two of my friends knew. My husband added my post to his
Facebook page so his 893 friends would know to be on the lookout for the runaway. Let’s take a moment and review this situation. We have my husband who is distraught, Carol is beside herself, Sylvia is frantic, Freddy is upset and Sally is very concerned. Then we have all our Facebook friends who were worried enough to pass along our post to their friends. There were lots of people on the lookout for Kozmo. Meanwhile on the other side of town we later learned that he was actually “soakin’ up the suds” so to speak in a nice warm, dry house. Apparently he suckered some very nice people into taking him home with them. They found him in the middle of the road looking lost, cold, lonely and very sad. They felt sorry for him so they took him home with them to clean him up and try to figure out where he belonged. After a warm bubble bath they fed him and tucked him into a nice soft doggy bed for the night snug as a bug (or dog) in a rug. Before they shipped him to the dog pound the next morning they must have fed him a big, fat steak. How do I know this you ask? Well, not only had he gained four pounds by the time we got him back, but he had dried steak sauce under his chin! Had we known he was being so well taken care of we wouldn’t have worried about the little snot. As it was my brother-in-law kept checking back at the dog pound and finally there was Kozmo behind bars in an ugly, orange doggy jumpsuit with #46387 on his chest. His bail was set at $35 and because he didn’t have his tags on, the pound demanded to know who the owners were before they would release him. My sister-in-law finally ‘fessed up and gave my husband’s name. She didn’t want to rat her brother out because he had just been appointed to their board the month before. Boy is he gonna have some ‘splainin’ to do at the next meeting! We’d like to say a big thank you to all our concerned friends and to the nice people who rescued Kozmo. Had it not been for all of you, this incident would definitely have put my husband right over the edge.