Quiet watchdog

LADY WASN'T WORRIED ABOUT INTRUDERS HERE.
SHE WANTED TO GET BACK INTO THE HOUSE.

Normally, Lady barks loudly when someone, even my wife, comes to the door. She even barks when I come to the door.

Today, though, she remained silent when we had a plumber in the house. She didn't bark when he came to the door, and she was silent when they were in the same room. She just sniffed him.

Maybe she's not as good a watchdog as I thought she was. Or is it something else?

Update: Lady wasn't very quiet yesterday when Josh mowed the lawn. She barked and barked and barked. She didn't like the noise, of course. On the other hand, you could barely hear her over the lawnmower.

Contact: I can be reached at tgilli52@gmail.com or nc3022@yahoo.com. Also, my Twitter handle is EDITORatWORK.

More entries from the Dog Blog

• Katie cried

• Growl and pull

• 13-plus years with my dog Lady

• ... said the spider to ...

• The Dog Diary (2015)

• The Dog Diary (2014)

• OOH! OOH! The stereophonic huskies

• What Lady and Michael Jackson had in common

EDITOR@WORK blog entries

• You really DO need an editor

• Reminders for would-be novelists

• What I do when I'm editing

• What I charge (it's a steal) and what I edit

• Slogging through the Internet

• J-school: More eyes on your stories

• J-school: Go out and learn

• Rookie mistakes for magazine writers

Blog entries from The Auto Racing Journal

• Angel in Black: Remembering Dale Earnhardt Sr.

(a book of great stories about the Intimidator)

• Then Junior Said to Jeff...

(the book of great NASCAR stories)

• My best day as a sports writer

• Jeff Gordon's milk toast to Dale Earnhardt

• Wayne Auton: A life in racing

More blog entries by Tom Gillispie

• Resume for a writer and editor

• An editor's views on powerful writing

• Advice for be and would-be novelists

• Links to TG's stories online

• Favorite quotes

• What I do when I'm editing

Anecdotes by Tom Gillispie

• Wipeout at Death Valley

• Days with rainbows

• A desperate writer working in the dark

• Yer outta there!