I Am Dog Sitting a Small, Mischievous Horse

July 2nd, 2009Blog1 comment

Our friend Rick called. I was away from my phone and got the voice mail. He wanted to ask for a favor, and from the tone of his voice it sounded like he needed a kidney.

I called him back. “You don’t have to do this, and I totally understand if you don’t want to,” Rick said, “But… Would you mind dog sitting Pepe this weekend?”

Pepe is less than a year old — thus probably five years old in dog years. He behaves just like a five year old boy that has just eaten a pound of Skittles. He is mid-sized and muscular like a small horse or like Verne Troyer if he worked out a lot. He knows how to open doors. He is very friendly, and likes to hug people a lot. But for him, hugging consists of jumping onto someone and trying to give them a handshake with his mouth.

“Yeah, I’ll take him,” I said.