Misbehaving

I read with great interest the story that appeared in yesterday’s New York Times regarding the Governor of New York’s dog.  Apparently, this little maltese, Cheerio, has bitten several visitors to the Governor’s mansion.  A word to the wise my little friend, “do not bite guests to your home, especially if it is a mansion.”

As you know, I am a barker.  I bark when people come to the door, whenever the doorbell rings and when dogs walk by our house.  I can tell that this behavior is very annoying, especially to My G and Lil Joe.  However, I draw the line at biting people.  This just cannot be tolerated.  Cheerio should know that some dogs get sent to the doggie farm when they bite people and they don’t come back.  Luckily for Cheerio, his family is going to bring in a dog trainer.  Hopefully he will learn to behave better.

It’s just hard to believe that this  dog got a huge article in the New York Times for misbehaving.  Too bad that there aren’t more stories about the sweet  and kind dogs and all the good that they do.  I know, I know, those kind of stories just don’t make the news.  I just hope that Bo, President Obama’s dog, sees this as a warning.  Any dog that is in the public spotlight because of their human, can easily find themselves top story in any supermarket tabloid – even the New York Times.