Years ago, Corky, Wen’s spunkiest Scottie ever, had a thing about towels. Whenever she had to sit in a cage at the groomer or at the clinic where Wen worked and someone put a towel in the cage for her to sit on, chances were good that the towel would end up at least partially shredded by a determined little wheaten Scottie. Presto change-o: what was once a towel, was suddenly a pile of shredded fabric!
Sometimes, towels are hung over the front of cages when the dogs in them are overly excited and bark too much. Not having a view of whatever is so stimulating seems to have a calming effect. Corky, on the other hand, did not appreciate having a towel hanging in front of her, obstructing her view, so she would first paw at the towel, pushing it to the side, until she created a peephole. Then she would grab onto the towel with her teeth and tug and pull it between the cage bars into the cage with her. The next thing you knew, presto change-o: the towel covering Corky’s cage had disappeared into the cage!
In her own way, Corky was a Houdini dog, expressing her opinions about towels by performing her sneaky tricks. It didn’t take too many towel episodes to convince everyone not to hang a towel over her cage or put a towel in a cage with her, because Houdini Corky was always ready to perform her act!
Corky
