Operation: Destroy The Water Hose

Some new fur parents always ask, Why do dogs destroy water hose? Let me share our story then. Mom and Dad just got a new extendable hose for the yard. Great for them, they can water their garden, and give us drinks, but here is my problem. When they play and shoot us with water, Kaleo can just shake it off. If I get wet, it feels like I am carrying a lead jacket with all my fur. I like drinking water, not a small lake. I swear I felt a bird bathing on my back before. So tonight is the night we destroy the water hose once and for all.

I have enrolled Kaleo for tonight’s operation—I told him that the hose is a snake. And it’s funny because he believed me without a second thought. We even had a serious discussion about striking at 9 pm when Mom and Dad are winding down in their bedroom. We have already dug up a hole behind the house to bury the “snake.”  I have also enlisted a couple of neighbors’ dogs to keep watch as our operation (destroy the water hose) is active. If this goes well, I will never have to play sponge again.

The plan is simple. We are going to slip out the front door, avoid the motion lights, bite the hose off at the nozzle (head for Kaleo), drag it to the hole, and bury it forever. I have gone over the plan about ten times, and Kaleo seems to remember something about a rake. Close enough. Okay, now as soon as our parent’s light goes off,… Uh oh, footsteps. What does Mom want?

“Night, night  Aspen, get plenty of sleep for our trip to the lake tomorrow.”

Shoot, I forgot about the lake—new plan. Operation “Drain the Lake.”