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Sometimes my Hound mix is too smart for her own good

Photo credit: Shamontiel L. Vaughn

If you’re someone who plays baseball, I would strongly suggest you stay away from my Hound mix. She’s an unapologetic ball thief. I’ve lost count of the number of times that I looked down and a random baseball or softball was in her mouth. Along with finding dead animals, she can scope out and steal a ball in random park grass better than any other dog I’ve walked or owned.

It drives me crazy. Why? On top of worrying about these mysterious balls (after disinfecting them before she clears my kitchen door) bouncing near my entertainment center or scuffing my laminate floors, she thoroughly enjoys watching the balls roll under the couch. I think she enjoys this more than she does slamming refrigerator doors and cabinet doors closed. And guess who is left army crawling underneath the couch each night to collect her stolen toy? A Black Girl In a Doggone World, that’s who!

So I decided to teach her a lesson. I crawled underneath the couch to get her latest stolen toy a couple of nights ago and told her she wouldn’t get it back until the morning. Her response? This.

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Shamontiel is a dog lover to her core: 524 completed walks with 93 dogs, eight dog-housesittings and six dog boardings at the time of this publication.

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