Taffy the Laffy Samoyed Stories

25. Taff & the Meatloaf Caper

So I am working on this neat-o craft project and I got the whole kitchen counter covered in stuff, well it is time for lunch so I figured-Hey get the meatloaf out.

OK, so since I got almost no counter space to set the plate of meatloaf on I decide, stupidly, to just take the 3lb. left over meatloaf, and cut it right on the plate it was on in the fridge, instead of getting the cutting board out and using that.

About this time the Taff decided he needs in from outside, I just opened the door and left him tied to his cable and shut the door on that. figuring to unclip him as soon as I was done cutting the meatloaf. He had about 8 feet of cable inside the door in the kitchen.

Well I get the big knife and slice the meatloaf in 5 big, like one inch thick, slices. I take the little slice off the end and toss it to Taff, bigo mistako number 2, he now knows what I am doing and crowds my legs.

I grab the plate and turn, and trip over Taff, the plate goes flying and I do this incredible save BUT the meatloaf flings off the plate and rains down on the floor all around Taff. Talk about manna from heaven!

This is better than the time we pulled open the bag of marshmallows and the bag ripped and flung marshmallows all over the floor in the dining room, like 100 marshmallows, Taff went ballistic and almost died of sugar shock, gobbling them up so fast he was not breathing. He looked like a huge albino chipmunk, his cheeks were so full his eyes were crossed.

Well this is ten times better cause this is MEAT, but he only has 8 feet of cable, he is scrambling to try to grab all 4 pieces, he is bounding around with his mouth full of meatloaf and trying to get the rest under his paws, like Tag-meat is MINE-all of it!!!

I am of course yelling, but what is the use there is no 10 second rule on food on the floor here, cause Taff is a 5 second retriever of anything that falls. In fact he has sometimes caught stuff before it hit the floor!

So Taff is dashing back and forth and he SO wants all that meat, and he SO wants to take it outside where he can get away from me with it, and he is beside himself as he can't bark AND he don't want me to get near him cause I might take it back. BUT he can't open the door himself!!

What a quandary, he raced back and forth gulping hunks of meat off every piece on the floor and trying to swallow it all, but he just could not run and pick up meat slices while he had that one big hunk in his mouth, which he would not put down and could not eat, as his mouth was full of chunks he could not chew!

I finally decided to give up the chase before he choked himself to death, gave himself bloat, hung himself on his cable or all of the above and just grab the camera.

He ran around some more while I fired away at him, getting mostly white blur shots or empty frames and finally he was out of breath, as it is hard to breath with a mouth full of meatloaf, even for Taff, and he just stood at the door whining and huffing through the corners of his drooling mouth.

Out of pity I let him out and he promptly buried the big piece he had in his mouth. Click here for the close up, scroll to the bottom of the page.

I am sitting at the computer and it is spitting rain. I am checking the weather and it is to turn to snow, now my dilemma is do I walk Taff now or wait, when out of the blue Taff starts HOWLING his head off.

I rush to the window and see the big Dane pup that belongs to the neighbors friend come bounding through the neighbors yard . I grab the camera and fire off a shot, Taff continues to howl. It then dawns on me that this girl may not be "fixed" and for sure Taff is NOT, so I toss the camera on the chair and rush for the door, I had a hold of Taff's cable and was dragging him up the steps when she shot by him like a Nascar racer and came right up the steps to me, Taff stayed at the bottom barking his head off, so I figured if he hadn't made a move yet either it was safe, or he is not the scent champion I envision him to be.

Down the steps she bounded , boy can this girl cover ground, she goes right over to Taff who is so excited he is quivering all over like it is 200 below zero. Taff tries to make up but it must have dawned on him that barking in her face is not sweet talk, so he shut up and sat down. That is when she shyly came over to meet him. She never made a sound and all Taff did was yip. Since he was still tied to 20 feet of cable I threw up the window and started taking pictures, it was real hard to keep her in the viewfinder as she could really cover ground.

Taff meanwhile, romance impaired as he is, tried to impress her with how high he could mark up the baby Rose of Sharon bush, well she can wet higher than him just standing up, I thought he was going to dislocate his leg trying to out do himself. She didn't seem very impressed.

She soon figured out she could lure him into chasing her and she eventually figured out she could lure him around the little Maple tree which ended up with him half strangled, three times I went out and undid him for fear he would kill himself hahaha.

I watched and took pictures for about 45 minutes and it was hilarious, she kept trying to lure Taff in to flat out racing, but he knows that cable will hold him so she settled for zig-zagging back and forth with Taff trying to guess which way she was going to turn, so much for lure coursing! Taff had no clue and couldn't even begin to catch her and he is fast.

I thought she never let up but eventually they did stop racing around to sniff each other, she belted him in the face with her tail once, her tail is like rope and not like a Sammie tail for sure. One other time she whipped her paw under his back leg and pulled his feet out from under him, she was a frisky one for sure!

Taff boy was in his glory, tongue lolling out and prancing around like a prince. The poor Rose of Sharon bush may not survive ,between being leaned on, bumped into, and sprayed 5000 times it is now leaning at a 45 degree angle,but I got dozens of them so it is no big loss.

Finally the neighbor called her and home she went, Taff had to come in for a nap, I don't think he even wanted a walk after that sprinting exercise! I know he met her way last summer but she has grown so tall since then I cannot believe it. What a beauty she is and I though Sammies were a ball of energy whewwwww eeeeee, glad I don't have to walk that girl! (see pics here)