Dice and Cody have an adventure

The following story occurred the other night - in the rain, and the cold, and at ten at night. 

What the dogs refer to as a kitty, was not, as they soon discovered, a kitty.

I will let them tell their story.

Dice, the Border-collie-in-charge

So, the other night, Dice, the border-collie-in-charge was on patrol and discovered an invader in the yard. It was a black and white kitty! Dice knew that this could not stand, and so he ran at the black and white kitty to tell it that he was the border-collie-in-charge, and black and white kitties are not welcome!

The black and white kitty did not run from Dice. Rather it lifted its tail and peed on him! Dice was shocked! He jumped back. the stench! This was a very bad black and white kitty indeed!

Dice elected to stand back from the stink-spraying black and white kitty and bark angrily at it until it left.

This did not work well. The kitty did not leave, and Dice could not get closer, since the kitty had no manners and peed stinky stuff on border-collies-in-charge. He barked and barked, hoping that maybe Ketchum or the back-up border collie would come and help out. 

Ketchum stayed on the porch and thought that black and white kitties should be left in peace. She too had tried to chase a black and white kitty, and she too had been peed on, and now in her job as elder statesdog she saw no reason to get kitty pee on herself.

Ketchum, the elder statesdog

Dice got assistance when the backup border collie, Cody was accidentally let out by the house human who armed with a flashlight and a tone of annoyance stepped out of the house to the sound in incessant barking and the stench of the black and white kitty. Dice heard her call his name, and assumed that she was yelling encouragement, so he kept barking, hoping the back up border collie was on the way.

Cody, the backup border collie

Cody, the back up border collie arrived like a shot, and quickly decided on a plan. Ignoring Dice's warning about kitty spray, she leapt at the kitty to tell it what for - bad kitty!!

The kitty peed on her too! It was terrible! It stung her eyes, and it assaulted her nostrils. She decided that the kitty had crossed a line of common decency. The kitty must die!!

The kitty sprayed her again and again, but she no longer cared. And finally with the shouts of the house human and Dice cheering her on she stepped back triumphantly. The black and white kitty would pee no more!

Apparently the house human was not shouting encouragement, she was angry, not at the criminally insane and now departed black and white kitty but at the border-collie-in-charge, and the back-up border collie!

She saw the scene, and immediately yelled at both collies to go home. It was raining and she was wet, and she had just tramped through cactus and boulders to reach the scene of The battle.

Still high on the success of her victory, Cody raced for the house. Dice was a little more subdued, uncertain, should he have dispatched the black and white kitty himself, or kept Cody back? The house human was annoyed, which made him uncertain. Also he was finding it hard to think with the kitty pee still scalding his nostrils.

When the house human caught up she did not let Cody into the house! Instead, Cody got to spend the night outside, so did the border-collie-in-charge. Cody felt so grown up and in-charge!! She had earned the right to sleep outside, where she could bark freely at the neighbor's dogs. Such fun!

The next day, and the day after that, the house human tried to drown her with a garden hose and fizzy sweet-smelling water!! It was pretty horrible. The good news was that the fizzy water did nothing to hide the still pungent - almost overwhelming stench of the black and white kitty!!  Every time Cody inhaled it she recalled again her breathtaking victory!!!