Diary of a Dire Wolf

Dire Entry 16

It is three paws forward, two paws back with my human, diary. I thought I had managed to teach her how I like to be fed but instead of simply putting my food bowl down and letting me at it she seems to have ideas of her own grandeur and has the audacity to eat first! She'll even then make me sit and wait whilst food is put in my bowl! Doesn't she realise, dear diary, that I must show her how annoyed I am by making her feel my claws that I've had to wait?! For the meantime, until I can find another way of showing her how cross I am, I will make do with my noisy Howls of Complaint as I am doing my "sitting" and lying "down". I swear sometimes I feel like a performing seal in a circus!

Yesterday was a very busy day for me, diary. There was a lot of gardening in need of happening. I felt that there were just too many weeds, too many plants in pots and that the grass needed extra soil sprinkled across it. Although winter is approaching and as a wolf I don't actually understand anything about growing seasons, I felt it important that my human had many holes across her lawn into which she may put her spring bulbs. I know how she loves flowers, and I know that she knows how much I love to eat them when they are at their prettiest… I also felt that the fencing needed my particular attention. My human may think that the special bamboo fencing put up against the cold metal railing works well as a"disguise". She is wrong. I personally believe that bamboo fencing is ideal for my ever ongoing teething pain and I very much enjoy how it's refuses to come away from the railings – I have such fun playing tug-of-war with it!

Oh dear, I hear her calling me now. Diary, I must go. The suspicion that she may have treats awaiting me is too great for me to resist. I will heave myself off this comfortable bed, ears back, tail up and curled… It's so important she believes I am pleased to see her. That way I will get more treats – this I have learnt from her behaviour! Adieu for now, dear diary.