Puppy Chase

One day a little puppy was bored with nothing to do. He was just laying
around trying to think of something fun.

A bird landed on the ground beside the puppy and it startled him. The
puppy let out a small bark. When he barked it in turn startled the bird and
the bird started to fly away. Looking for anything to do the puppy started
chasing the bird. The bird flew this way and that. It flew around trees and
parked cars. The puppy followed right behind barking the entire time.

While the puppy was chasing the bird he saw a cat walking through a yard.
The cat looked up and their eyes met. The puppy had already forgotten about
the bird. The puppy and the cat both knew that the race was on. The cat
darted off in the other direction with the puppy hot on its heels. The cat
scaled a fence but that only slowed the puppy for a second. He easily
crawled under and charged again towards the cat. The cat crossed a street
and quickly climbed a tree. The puppy also ran across the street but he
knew that he would never be able to get to the cat.

When the puppy was crossing the street he heard something honk at him.
Just then an old pickup truck drove by. Off the puppy went trying to catch
the truck. The truck was a lot faster then the puppy but it stopped at
every street. The puppy would get right up to the truck and then it would
take off again. He never could get close enough to bite the tire or
anything. The puppy chased the truck all over the neighborhood never quite
catching up to it all the way. The truck made one last turn onto a busy
street and sped off leaving the puppy far behind. The puppy knew that he
had no chance of catching the truck. So he sat down and waited for
something else to chase.

That's when he noticed that his tail was wagging very fast from side to
side. He decided to teach that tail a lesson. He bit at his tail but it was
fast and moved out of the way. He tried again only to get another mouth
full of air. Before he knew it he was running in circles trying to catch
his own tail. He ran and ran but his tail always stayed just out of reach.
That's how the puppy spent the rest of his day. Chasing his own tail.
Although he never did catch his tail, it never really got away either.

Told on Dec. 8, 2010