Oregon is an easy state to travel in. I have family littered throughout the state, which means I am able to eat for free, shower regularly, and sleep inside.
Oh yeah, and I get to see family.
After visiting Uncle Bill and Aunt Ona Lee, I decide to make a brief detour to Bend, Oregon to see my cousin Jaime and his wife and daughter, Lee and Brianna. I had seen Jaime a couple times fairly recently, but it had been a few years since I had seen Lee and Brianna.
Brianna has grown up a great deal (as children are prone to do) and is now twelve years old. Still, she is dwarfed by the family's Great Dane, Summer. They also have two other dogs and six cats. It is like visiting a petting zoo.
Some of the cats are friendly while others stay away. One cat, Midnight, takes it upon herself to use me as a scratching post, toy, and bed at various intervals throughout my stay. Luckily, she never uses me as a litter box.
As for the dogs, Bailey is calm and friendly, Karma likes to growl at me like I just stole her bone, and Summer has developed quite the affinity for my crotch, which she unfortunately lines up perfectly with.
Jaime assures me that Summer is a small Great Dane, but I assure him that no such animal exists. All Great Danes are gigantic, and Summer is no exception. With her black and white spots, she resembles an anorexic cow more than she does a dog.
The bed I sleep in is in the family room, so I share the area with the animals. As I start to sleep, Summer jumps onto the bed, claiming half of it for herself. In the middle of the night, I awake just in time to narrowly avoid crashing to the ground.
Summer has managed to take up the entire bed, sending me sprawling onto the edge.
No longer possessing a bed, I head to the bathroom. Passing Jaime's bedroom to get there, I am met by a snarling Karma, who snaps at me in protection of her owner. Quickly shutting the bathroom door, I do my business and hurriedly sneak past the growling canine and back to my Great Dane-saturated bed.
When I wake up the next morning, Marmaduke finally makes sense.
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On one of my myspace Blogs under the title 20 things I’ve learned this year I expounded on the error of my ways as in regard to Summer's nocturnal snuggly-bed piracy tendencies.
Further, Mystery is a boy kitty and he liked you very much, it appears you made quite good friends with him. hehe.
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