Photo by Bill Stokes
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, explains on behalf of the keeper that the daily post has been delayed as both Kickass and the keeper get personal instruction from a visiting beagle named Ava on how to spend the entire day napping on the softest surfaces available. Ava, who is in charge of Phyllis’s son Todd’s house in Wisconsin Rapids, displays the kind of low-key authority the keeper has aspired to all of his long life but has never been unable to attain.
He is, however, apparently making some “beagle” progress with spending more time napping and less time giving a rat’s ass about what anyone says or does–except for Phyllis, of course.
