In Love with France, At Home In Italy

Our rescue dog, Murray, seems to have lots of fans. You may have heard about some of his previous misadventures such as jumping through, and busting not one, but two different car door windows in order to buy stamps at the Post Office (see  MURRAY THE WONDER DOG (WHO WILL JUMP THROUGH HOOPS... , and more.  We're not even going to mention the eating-the-new Italian-sofa caper:it turns out that Murray is REALLY into expensive red leather), which he finds delicious. He hasn't yet attacked the other sofa. Maybe because it's brown?  In all honesty, do I look like the type of guy who would get into trouble? But as he demonstrated in  THE GIFT OF TIME--"IL FAUT CULTIVER SON JARDIN," S... Murray knows how to carpe those diems. In fact, he is always in a big hurry to do so. You'll see what I mean.  Hey, there, J. Do you know what time it is? You don't think that I'm going to be bought off with just ONE little caress, do you? Well, sin...

Looks innocent, doesn’t he? This is our rescue dog, Murray’s second summer in Italy, where he has learned a new trick:how to throw himself against the window of the parked car with enough force to break it!  And for his second act, he jumps out the busted window and starts taking a passeggiata to look for some company.  Our architect friends were kind enough to babysit M for the six days we were in Slovenia. When they told us that he had done this to their car, we couldn't believe it.  As the story goes, Daniele left Murray to go into the post office for a minute only to see Murray walking in through the front door! Then he looked back at the car and noticed that the window was busted and there was glass all over the place. He was trying to think what might have possessed Murray to do such a thing. Obviously, Murray needed some stamps. That little escapade was in addition to the time M slipped through their fe...