Alayne and I were sitting on the deck after dinner the other evening when we heard blind Widget start woo-woo-wooing from inside the house. Sometimes she will woo-woo-woo when she wants help getting out of a chair, sometimes she will do this to demand food from us while we're eating, and sometimes she'll do this because, well, she likes the sound of her own voice. But this determined woo-woo-wooing kept going, so I went inside to see what the Widge was up to.
I found her in the kitchen, woo-woo-wooing … in anticipation? … in frustration? … because she was oh-so-close to snatching our left-over dinner off the counter. Oh-so-close as in inches. As in, the inches she might have had if her legs were normal Beagle ones and not those confounded Dachshund legs she was born with.
Usually when she attempts a food heist, she's coy and quiet about it, even if brazen. But this woo-woo-wooing while trying to steal the food is akin to a burglar setting off the burglar alarm himself and then breaking into the house.
She didn't even care that I was in the kitchen, and she continued trying to figure out how she could grab the oven pan off the counter while I went to get the camera. The only indication that she realized law enforcement had arrived on the scene is the dropped tail; an upright, bobbing tail is a confident Widget, while the dropped tail is the "uh-oh-I'm-not-so-sure-about-this-anymore" Widget. Her confidence about pulling off a successful heist had wilted, in other words, even as her determination endured.
After taking the photo for our evidence files, I promptly took her into custody and escorted her out of the kitchen and onto the deck, where she was placed in detention.
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