So I was house/dog sitting for my sister. I was laying in bed watching T.V. and kept hearing a noise that sounded like the faint sound of a car door. I knew it wasn't a car door but every time I heard it and hit mute on the T.V. it would stop. After about the10th time muting the T.V I heard it. It was coming from inside the room but I didn't know what it was. Being in a strange place, I got a little freaked BUT I got up and figured out what it was. It was just one of doors shaking a little from the wind. All was well and I went back to my show and eventually to sleep.
The dog sleeps on the bed and she is quite snuggly. However, the bed sits high. Too high for her to jump up on so you have to lift her on the bed. She can get down just fine. At 3:30 a.m I hear her jump off the bed and start to growl a little. Well not really a growl but not a bark either.. let's call it a grark. So she is grarking at me to get up. It's very dark and I am not too pleased but I know that if I had to pee (and was a dog) and no one let me out I would not be a happy dogger. So I get up. She takes off and runs downstairs. I follow.
I am now downstairs (still in the dark) in the hallway by the light switch that I haven't yet turned on. I look out the doors from the kitchen and I see someone standing on the back patio. I pee a little. I just stared for a minute thinking that I am going to die. My heart is beating out of my chest and I have no idea how to proceed. Do I run and hit the alarm button for the cops to come?? Where is the closest alarm ??? Do I go to the front door and run outside?? If I do, will they catch me?? Will the dog follow me or stay and grark? Wait she isn't grarking??? I can't leave the dog there. This is all in a matter of about 10 seconds as I am staring straight into the face of the dark killer outside,our only seperation a glass door.
So I duck into the powder room that was right next to me. I peek my head out again and he is gone. OH SHIT.. where did he go? I step back out into the hall and there he is AGAIN!!! OH SHIT!!!.. Oh wait.. that's my reflection in the glass. The killer was my shadow. Duh.
So I let the dog out to pee. I am relieved that I am the killer but ready to go back upstairs and cover myself with blankets ( because blankets will prevent an intruder from being able to find you) and try to get back to sleep. The dog seems to think it's time to stroll and play in the yard and won't come in. ( I should have put her on a leash so it was a quick pee but I was freaked out and had no intention of stepping out that door).
I had to go out because she wasn't coming in, it was now 3:40 and I can't start screaming her name . So very hesitantly, I go outside and whisper-yell her name. She looks at me and runs to the front of the house. I walk to the front of the house and whisper-yell her name again. She grarks and runs away. After circling the house several times she has had her fun and finally comes inside.
Upstairs, I pick her back up and put her on the bed , close my eyes and start to go back to sleep. Then I hear her grark and jump off the bed again. I know she doesn't have to go pee and I know that I am the killer but everything scares me now. She comes back to the bed and grarks for me to put her back on the bed. We do this twice more. She is now tired and goes right to sleep.
Me...not so much.
