Woofie, My Friends!
My apologies for not writing lately - We have been so busy with out-of-town visitors, Mistress Elizabeth's Birthday, and illness. I'm excited to entertain you - Licks!....
Mistress Elizabeth and Louis set up our business for a day at a local Pet Parade. We had an early morning set-up and long-distance driving, so it was still dark when I was eating my breakfast kibble prior to leaving. As I watched them pack up the vehicles, I was amazed at how efficient they've become loading up all the items to sell!
Pet Pawties In A Box is a business with a variety of products to sell, not a speciality store that sells one item, so there is a lot of thought put in for store displays. I never know what the booth is going to look like because Mistress is always coming up with new items and ideas. This time, Mistress highlighted Pawty Collars, Pawty Hats, and Pawty Bandanas and put her new samples on her private collection of stuffed animals. Mistress even put me in a
Birthday Collar! - but my birthday isn't until February! So exciting! At the Event there was a smell of bacon in the air for a Pancake Breakfast, lots of hustle and bustle, and soooo many people and their dogs all dressed up. I got lots of attention and compliments - Woofie! The booth looked good, and Mistress made a number of sales, and met a lot of really nice people. Such a good day...
Not everything was good, though. Some things didn't make my Mistress happy, but even what doesn't make her happy initially, often brings a smile in the re-telling. Because of this, I don't mind sharing the humorous downside of my Mistresses business:
Mistress always has bowls of treats for me and all my new friends that come into our booth, and bowls of candy for the humans. The candy can't be chocolate (bad for dogs, melts in the heat), so she buys a lot of really nice hard candy for sharing. On this particular day a "shopper" came into the booth with an empty bag. She walked up to one of the candy bowls and proceeded to pick through the candy while filling up her bag. Mistress Elizabeth watched her in shock, and when she had filled up her bag (and emptied our bowl), she turned, smiled, and said, "Thank You!" - and left!
Later, Mistress was visiting another business booth while Louis was managing our store. The day had grown quite warm, it was late in the day, and our customers had dwindled. I was on the ground, bored, when I started to bark at the two ladies who were in our booth. Mistress noticed one of them had her stuffed Dachshund in her hands and was twisting her legs! Louis must have been bored, too, because he didn't even notice. Mistress and I started watching her in hopes she would stop and put the Dachshund down. By then, she had damaged the party hat, twisted all 4 legs, and untied the bow on the
Wiener Circle. The eyes on the stuffed Dachshund were pleading for us to come rescue her! By this time she looked like she had been dragged outside and played with by a 5-year-old! Mistress returned as fast as she could, approached the woman and said, "The Dachshund is from my personal collection and is NOT for sale - but you may have to buy the hat because you've damaged it!". The woman laughed, ignored my Mistress, and went on mis-treating other items. I wanted to bite her ankle! Mistress stood close by until she left, and was obviously not happy! Poor little stuffed Dachshund - later, she had to be cleaned up, sewn up, and her beautiful pink pawty hat with a matching collar had to be thrown away!
I hope, for my Mistresses sake, that all of you remember that a booth at a Pet Event is still a professional business and deserves your respect!
Love and Licks,
Nathan
by: Pet Pawties In A Box
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