Monday, March 30, 2009

Intuition

The pugs always wake up at an obscene hour for breakfast.  And by pugs I mean Benjamin.  Benny usually starts sometime between 5am and 6am jumping around wanting to eat.  I usually hold him off until it is time to get up for work, but on the weekends this doesn’t really work too well.  So I get up at his normal feeding time, take them out in the yard to go potty, give them their breakfast and then sneak back to bed for a few more hours of sleep.

Yesterday morning, I woke up to tags jingling, glanced at the clock and saw that it said 5:12am.  My immediate thought was 5am on a Sunday, Benny, you got to be kidding me!  So I grumbled something to him to let him know that he is crazy and that he needed to go back to bed.  But my grumbling was not heeded and I heard a pug dancing around not taking no for an answer.  I pried my eyes open to see what was going on and I saw little Luna staring back at me.  While Luna is always quick to join in on Benny’s breakfast crusade, she is never the one to start it.

Thinking that Luna might just need to go potty, I got up and took her to the yard.  Benny and Henry joined us and I scooped up Sol so that I only needed to make one trip to the yard in my stupor.  Luna wasn’t in much of a hurry to go potty, so I wasn’t sure why she was dancing around the bed so early.  As we were coming back into the house, all the pugs made a mad dash for the kitchen and while it went against my principles to feed them so early in the morning I did it anyway because I certainly didn’t want to get up to do it about an hour later.  After the pugs ate, we all crawled back into bed and as soon as my head hit the pillow, I heard a clap a thunder and then the sound of rain beating on the roof.  It was pouring.  At that point, I remembered they were calling for pretty bad thunder storms to move through the area in the early morning hours.  I laid in bed listening to the rain and the thunder.  Luna snuggled up beside me and was quite pleased with herself.  By getting up when she did she saved her paws from getting wet!