Pawsome with an 'O'

Woman got up early on Saturday to work in the garden before she had to teach her 9:30am class. As she was working away, she heard me barking ferociously at one of the boxwoods by the back deck. She told me to "shut it," as usual, and went on with her work. I continued to bark - louder and louder. I was trying to alert her of something, but she wouldn't listen to me.

Finally she "humored" me and looked under the shrub. With a disgusted look on her face, she scooped me up into her arms and made a mad dash for the back door. Then she woke up Ian. It was like 7:30am on a Saturday. That's way too early to wake up Ian, so I knew something had to be wrong. She told him there was a possibly dead pawsome under the boxwood and needed his help.

Here's a photo of the yucky dead pawsome.



Ian reluctantly came outside to check the pawsome's vital signs, because Woman was afraid it might not be dead yet. Here he is - throwing rocks at it! LOL! Is this how they check your vitals in the ER? I hope not!



Woman was holding the door open to the deck, so if the pawsome burst into life, Ian could make a quick get away. If that had happened, Woman would have run for her life, slamming the door in Ian's face though. Poor Ian.

After confirming the pawesome was in pawsome heaven Woman searched the Internets to find who is responsible for Animal Control in our county and found that it is the Sheriff's department. A quick call to the Sheriff's department revealed that the People are responsible for burying the nasty thing. Yuck!!

So they got to work digging a hole, which is no fun with our hard clay soil, and the hole had to be deep and wide since the pawsome was a monster. They got the hole dug and had to devise a way to get said pawsome into said hole. The pawsome was too big to fit on the end of a shovel, so he had to be scooped into a box and carried to the hole. Woman almost barfed.

In the end, Mr. Pawsome was given a decent burial and is now resting peacefully at the top of our yard. Woman hates pawsomes. She says they are mean and can give me rabies.

Oh, Woman just informed me that pawsome starts with an 'O'. Opawsome? That's weird.