I am Mac, a 12-something show dog from Westerville, OH. My owners are Kacy and Mike. I can count and balance a dog treat on my head. If I am happy to meet you, I can roll over and also give you a shake.
I am aptly named as Kacy found me as a baby under a MAC ATM on the way home from work one morning while she was living with her parents after an internship abroad following college. I was so cute, a fluffy ball covered in tar, that she couldn’t resist keeping me. She went home and told her mom, she had something for her and her mother mistakenly thought she had brought home doughnuts. WRONG! It was me and I have belonged to this family ever since as Kacy and her husband, Mike’s, and her brother, Mike’s best buddy and show dog, and the only grand dog of Todd and Janet, (Mommy & Daddy). I don’t remember where I came from before that.
They are so lucky they found me because now they had someone to love them, guard them and keep them safe from squirrels, ground hogs and skunks! Nobody else is as good at that as ME!
When I was a baby, I began my career guarding the garage at Mommy and Daddy’s house. It was a great place for me to be on the lookout for any intruder. I practiced my defense in my spare time by chewing any shoes I could get hold of. Also, Daddy needed somebody to taste test his good cooking, Mommy needed some ears to scratch.
When Kacy bought her first house in Westerville, I moved there with her. She really needed me to watch over her new back yard. Shortly after that, Mike, moved in with us and has been with us ever since so he’d have somebody to play with and his parents, Betty and Bob, needed a grand dog, too. After a few years there, Kacy and Mike bought their first house together and we moved to old Westerville. They HAD to have me to watch over things there. By that time, I had lots of experience and there were lots of squirrels and critters to keep in line. I also needed to keep an eye on the mailman and oversee itty the cat, too. Job security you know.
Thing is, something’s going on here lately. I think they might be trying to make me retire…..at the very least they are changing my job description.
A few weeks back, Kacy and Mike began cleaning out our house. Things became quite chaotic. Mike sold his car. They don’t think I know they quit their jobs. We moved back out to Mommy and Daddy’s house. Word on the streets is they rented our house out and left itty there with the new lady while they travel the world. What does that mean?
Then one day a little a couple of weeks ago, we all went to the airport and they got out of the car and left without me. I went back home with Mommy and Daddy. And while I still oversee Daddy and Mommy’s house, test the food and the ear scratchins and give Schwartz the cat something to bat at, things are just not the same. They haven’t been back. I don’t know where they are; what does travelling the world mean? I watch the driveway every day, all day, waiting for them to come home and they don’t come. That’s never happened before. What’s going on? I …..am …..so…..so…..sad without them. I really miss itty the kitty too!
