The life of a dog

The Great Challenge of The No Bucket

My human and I play a great game. It's called "The No Bucket". My human places one of these buckets in every room, varying in shape and size. Some of these are just the right height that I can stick my head in without knocking it over, and others are a real challenge. Then they place bits of food and other delicious things in the No Bucket. Mostly these things are food that they are just to full to finish or containers that have bits of food stuck to the bottom that they just couldn't reach with their tender paws and short tongues, or fun things that can shred to very tiny pieces, and sometimes they put in useless bits of things that no one would want, just to make it interesting. The challenge is to get as many things out of the No Bucket as I can, and eat them or tear them up before my human catches me. Sometimes I can get the food out and eat it without my human ever knowing, especially from the short No Buckets, but the tall, light ones are a real challenge, and normally fall over, making a loud sound, and then I get caught. If my human catches me, she quickly chases me away from the No Bucket and takes every hard-earned prize off the floor and puts it back in the No Bucket while pretending to be angry and saying things like "No!" and "Bad Dog!" I know my human is only pretending to be angry, though or else she would never put all those yummy things in the No Bucket in the first place. I love my human, she thinks up the best games ever.