Shilo's Thoughts

 You might notice I'm not always around when you are. Unless you're eating bacon. Then I'm around. But when there's no bacon, I'm asleep. I sleep a lot. I have to. Digesting bacon is no easy thing. It takes a lot of energy. That energy comes from bacon. It's a delicious cycle, isn't it? I eat the bacon, which then helps me to digest the bacon I have eaten earlier, and I don't have to do anything but sleep while that happens. Then I wake up, go somewhere private until the used bacon leaves me, then I eat more bacon! So don't panic yourselves if you don't see me. I'm doing important things. But don't worry, if you go inside the big high box where all the bacon comes from and get yourself (me) some, then when you return to your table and sit down, I will be there 😉 It's what I do. It's the cycle of bacon I live by, so don't be shy about ordering extra bacon when you're ordering your food. It wil...

  The other day I was talking to another dog about his neck rope. He got out of the moving box he came in and there it was, already around his neck.     He was very surprised when I ran up to say “G’day!” and wag my red rat’s head tail at him.   “Where’s your neck rope?” he asked.   “I don’t have a neck rope because I live here,” I said.   “What’s the deal there?” he wanted to know.    “Well, I live here, and my Mum knows that I know the boundaries. You're a visitor, and you run madly around the place and fall into Wills dancing holes I dug for him, put yourself in danger of being run over by moving boxes or getting eaten by the dragons.”   “Dragons?” he yelped. “There are dragons here?” “Oh yes” I said “they live over near those trees and sometimes they come here, and Will chases them away. I bark at them, but I don’t get too close because they have huge claws and a tail that’s longer than me, and no fur. I think mum calls them Joannas but I...