One step at a time up the stairs.  Sparkie the wonder mutt would take one or two steps and then pause.  Take two more steps, and pause.  One step, another, until she reached the top.  My dog’s getting older and she may not be around in a few years.  Turns out she went all the way upstairs to get a stuffed animal in hopes to coerce me to play a little chase around the house.  It’s a game we play where I tell her to give me the stuffed animal and she runs around the table hiding from me.  I could never catch her a few years ago, she was so fast.  Today it’s quite easy to catch her, but I let her get away a few times to keep the game going.  It sounds like the house is coming down when we play this game.  Think about it.  Here’s this grown man running around the dining room table pounding his feet on the floor chasing a dog all for a stuffed animal.  I’m sure it’s quite funny from an outsiders perspective.

She’s sitting right next to me as I type this occasionally letting her eyes divert up to me to check and see if I’m ready to play.  The stuffed animal sits on the floor right next to her mouth in case I try and go for it.

I think it’s time to play chase the stuffed animal with Sparkie.  Here I go……