In this corner, Mona “Don’t Mess With My Smile” Lisa
And in this corner, Peone “The Alpha Hygienist”
Yesterday two of our wiener dogs, Mona Lisa and Peone, got into a fight. Mona Lisa is a 13-year-old cranky Tasmanian Devil. Peone is a 5-year-old hyperactive ball of energy, and the alpha female of the house. Although she’s small and the youngest, her unsuppressible energy makes her the leader of our pack of four dogs.
Peone loves to clean Mona Lisa’s dirty, stinking, rotting teeth. Usually Mona Lisa tolerates this intrusive activity, much as we humans tolerate the dental hygienist who picks, scrapes and grinds away at our ivories, every six months, as we dig our fingernails into the naugahyde arms of the chair.
But yesterday Mona Lisa had enough, and she bit Peone’s tongue. The fight was on. My wife broke it up and gave Peone a severe scolding.
Was my wife in the wrong? After all, Mona Lisa’s old teeth truly are rotting out of her head, and perhaps it’s for her own good to have her teeth cleaned regularly by her sister, whether she likes it or not.
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The idea of a doggy dental hygienist is hilarious. You should write a kids TV series about it. It reminds me of the show that my son used to watch, Wishbone:
Just don’t make me read it because yuck!
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Actually, my dog loves to clean anyone’s teeth. If you’d like to save money on your dental bills, she’d be happy to clean yours.
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Ewwww
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Do they need me to send Lowryder over there?!
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If he needs his teeth cleaned, this is the place to go.
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He would be happy to clean some teeth too..
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ewww. ewwww. ewwww.
I’m going to have to side with Mona Lisa on this score – rotting teeth or not. The thought of Peone in there poking around in my mouth is more than I can handle {shudder}
… which reminds me, I have an appointment this month with the dental hygienist. Ugh.
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Well Mona Lisa doesn’t like it. She growls while her teeth are being licked. I think Peone is either very brave or very reckless to even do this.
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Recklessly brave 🙂
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