This was written over 21 years ago when I was a Junior or Senior in high school. We once had a Labrador mix puppy that literally outgrew our tiny house and yard and picked on my mom's Pomeranian dogs. This was back when I could write all the time.
In a small house with a rather large white picket fence lives a young woman named Mindy. She's a small woman of twenty and weighs no more than eighty pounds.
Mindy has a one-hundred pound Labrador mix. The dog's name is Muleford. He is well behaved and never gives Mindy an ounce of trouble.
If you look at the two of them closely you might think they look alike. Mindy has small brown beady eyes magnified by huge glasses. She looks rather homely and frail. Muleford has large, brown probing eyes and drools gallons of saliva. To outsiders he looks like a scary dog.
One day Muleford brought his leash to Mindy, who was reading an encyclopedia. "Oh Muleford, must we go for a walk right now?" Mindy asks in a low squeaky voice. "Woof!" answered Muleford in a loud, deep bark. "Oh okay, if you insist." "Woof, Woof, Woof!" He walks up to her and she puts the book aside. "Please do not drool on me." The dog opened his big mouth and gave her a big, sloppy lick on the cheek, nearly knocking her glasses off.
Outside they proceed to get into her Volkswagen Bug. Muleford must first run around the yard peeing on the trees and flowers and the car. Then he jumps onto the front seat and tries to squeeze around so he can hang out of the window. Mindy carefully shuts the car door and Muleford sticks his head out of the already rolled down window. When she starts the car Muleford howls along with the classical music playing on the radio.
At the first stop sign, Muleford attempts to jump out the window to chase a cat. "Grrrr Grrrr, Woof, Woof!" "Muleford please calm down!" Mindy says in her quiet but firm tone of voice. The cat stops to stare at the car as it passes by. It seems unperturbed by the overgrown beast hanging from the window.
As they pull onto a busy street Muleford goes nuts. There is a lot to bark at and he gives the world outside of the car his full attention. The cars driving by and the people walking down the street all stare openly at the strange site of this huge dog hanging out the tiny car's window.
At the red light Muleford began barking at some kids in the back of a pick-up truck. The kids were laughing and pointing. "Look at the dog!" They scream in unison. Muleford continues barking and growling. A woman sitting in the back of the truck with the children tell the kids to ignore the dog and casts a wary glance his way. Finally Mindy has had a enough and tells him to calm down. He ignores her and continues barking. She continues on her way once the light changes to green.
Just then a rattle-trap of a car sped by dragging a muffler. Muleford jumped out of the window and begins chasing the car and any other car that blows the horn at him. Mindy hastily pulls over to the side of the road and jumps out. She begins frantically waving her arms and screaming "Don't hit my dog, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry!" Cars were swerving so they wouldn't hit him. The drivers were yelling angrily from their open windows. And then she realized that her dog was no where in site.
As she stands there in the road, she suddenly notices him on the side of the road licking a spilled milkshake. She runs over to him, grabbing his leash. "Muleford, are you okay?" She is shaking, but relieved that her dog is okay. Muleford trots across the road and stands next to the car waiting on her.
Once again they were on their way. This time Muleford could only stick his snout out of the window. There was drool all over the window. The side of the car almost looked as if someone had slung a bucket of water on the side of the car. "Muleford, sometimes I can't understand why you go on these wild trips. Really, I should not have to chase you every time you decide to run wild. "
I tweaked this just a bit, but otherwise it is just the way it was originally.
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