Gavin loves to sit in my lounge chair with me.  He’ll stretch out alongside me and chew his favorite Nylabone on the footrest.  He’s contented, he’s happy, but he’s bait for the chair shark.

     Patty is the resident chair shark.  She will stalk Gavin for his bone.  She will circle behind my chair and hide under Dear Hubby’s footrest.  She will crawl under mine and from underneath will POKE Gavin with her nose a few times.  Patty waits and watches for a paw to flop over the edge of the chair.  She nips at the dangling appendage.  Gavin leans over the edge and nips back.  The two jaw wrestle for a bit until she retreats under DH’s footrest.

     Gavin goes back to chewing his bone.  The chair shark begins to circle her prey again.  She doesn’t want any of the bones in their toy box she wants what Gavin has.  She MUST have it.

     Gavin stops chewing his bone, sighs, and rests his chin on my shins.  The chair shark pounces, steals the bone, and leaps for her lair, the couch.  She does her victory dance, shaking the Nylabone, and bouncing back and forth on the couch.  Buried behind the seat cushions you can scarcely see the three other bones she stole from Gavin today.