Christmas Gift

[Rodgera]

Figuring that her four-year-old son Kevin was listening in the next
room, Janet decided to tell her husband Don the latest Christmas gift
she had bought the boy by spelling out the words "fire truck"

Don nodded and said, "I think it would be a great Christmas gift."

From the other side of the wall, they heard Kevin yell, "I don't
want letters for Christmas!"

[rrich]

We had a dog that we had to spell things so he wouldn't understand what we were talking about.

It didn't take long before he realized that T*R*E*A*T was a goodie and T*R*U*C*K was a place to hang his head out the window in the wind.

These spelled words were then preceded with "Do you want a ..." and "Do you want to go for a ride in the ..."

At some point I tried to mess with his mind and would ask "Do you want to go for a ride in the T*R*E*A*T*?" or "Do you want a T*R*U*C*K*?" The dog very quickly picked up on that the wrong word was spelled and he would just stand there and give me a funny look as if to say that is wrong.

[KBs PensNmore]

Dogs can be very smart, one of our dogs throws his Frisbee then chases after it.