Gabby guards our cottage like she owns the place
Keeping nearly constant watch from indoors and out alerting us to critters, cars, friends and foes.
She’s a good dog
and we appreciate her attentiveness to her self-appointed “job” —
Though we prefer that she leave the skunks alone.
It’s only a matter of time before she arrives at our door with her tail between her legs
smelling like … a skunk and expecting a bath.
We know the skunks are around — I woke up the other night with my nose a burnin’ smelling the stinkers.