Evil Woobies

["Deb & Boyd McFail" <bdmcfail@alaska.net>]

Hi all,

I'll have to figure out a way to send you guys the 'Woobie Chronicles'. They
were compiled years ago from the Golden/Hobbs list and are a wonderful read.

Unfortunately, around here our Woobies have the habit of suddenly becoming
EVIL. This can happen overnight to even the oldest and most beloved Woobie
in the family although I have been told (Sophie will tell me, but Rosie
won't tell me these things) that it can happen in as short of a time as an
hour and that only eternal vigilance by the stalwart and steadfast goldens
will save the humans in the household from a fate worse than death. Yes,
friends, that's a direct quote from Sophie... a fate worse than death.. I
shudder to imagine it, don't you?

You see, according to Sophie, (who learned it from Rosie, who learned it
from her mom Ellie, and so on back throughout Golden-Woobie history),
Woobies can suddenly and with no warning become evil and attack the humans
in the household when they're sleeping, or innocently paying vet bills, or
snoozing on the couch, so whenever you see Woobie guts strewn across the
house, and you KNOW that particular Woobie was innocently occupying
floorspace or chairspace just moments earlier, that innocent looking Woobie
has become EVIL and the goldens are protecting their humans.

I have seen Sophie pause in mid-shred, look at me and say in a Joe Friday
voice, "Just doing' my job mam'm", and so what can I say to that but "Thank
you Sophie, I'll sleep better tonight knowing you're on the job"

At least, that's the story according to Sophie (grinning) She is still so
mad that Boomer lives in her house that I'm sure she won't pass down the
history to him, but I betcha Rosie does (g)

Counting dead Woobies in the rain,
Debs