It's A Dog's Life

Acrylic on canvas.

• Exhibited 2000,
• YWCA Women Artists: A Celebration.
• Youngstown, Ohio.

Feodor

by Kate Ramunno-Finney

. . . Feodor was the kind of dog that did not care what you did as long as it did not involve another pet. You might call what transpired selective jealousy or latent possessive tendencies or give whatever other label that you might feel appropriate to the behaviors that Feodor suddenly and without shame undertook in reaction to Muriel's taking home a kitten. It was nearly as violetnt and ugly as when she came home without onions on his "whopper". It retained the pickle and the mayonaise that Feodor had wanted them to hold, but the absence of the onions was intolerable. . . He stormed out to his two-story dog-house with ceiling fan and swimming pool and howled long into the night. Quieting down around three a.m. when "Lassie" re-runs showed on cable! . . .