Kerie
03-09-2007, 01:00 AM
It's the plumber. He wears an all blue uniform.
Oscar is one of those dogs who is vicious toward the UPS man, the mail lady and the Slomins man (guy who delivers oil). Well, we found ourselves in need of a plumber the other day. We called Roto Rooter (highly advertised plumbing service).
Sure, Oscar barked a lot when the man got here. The man didn't have much of a reaction to the barking. He told us that he has a mini-dachshund and a beagle at home and he grew up with a dachshund that lived to the age of 16. It sounds like his beagle is like Oscar when it comes to stealing food.
So, the Roto Rooter man started to work in our house. He was up and down the stairs several times and Oscar was NOT going crazy. :banana: I know that Oscar would be a watchdog if we needed him to be, but in this case, he knew that we needed this person to be in our house. It turned out that we had a frozen drain pipe. We also asked the man about how to restrict the flow of hot water in our kitchen sink when we bathe Oscar. So, he got under the sink to see if we had a shut-off valve. Curious Oscar wanted to get under the sink with the guy. The guy reached his hand out and gently moved Oscar away by the muzzle. I would have thought that if a stranger did that to Oscar, the stranger would risk losing his hand. Oscar just backed right up. DH and I were commenting that this guy has the same "touch" as our trainer!!!
When the plumber went back upstairs, we decided to lock Oscar in the kitchen so that he would not follow the man around. When it was time for the guy to leave, my husband first had to go upstairs to get money to pay him. When DH came back down, the guy had gone into the kitchen and was sitting at the table WITH OSCAR ON HIS LAP!!!!!!!! I did not get to see that. This cannot be my Oscar. Someone must have switched him!!!!! The guy even had big plumber boots. Oscar hates boots!!!!! The guy was really nice and he was very fair with the price. So I hope that Oscar is just a really good judge of people. I still think that Oscar is the ultimate watch dog.
Oscar is one of those dogs who is vicious toward the UPS man, the mail lady and the Slomins man (guy who delivers oil). Well, we found ourselves in need of a plumber the other day. We called Roto Rooter (highly advertised plumbing service).
Sure, Oscar barked a lot when the man got here. The man didn't have much of a reaction to the barking. He told us that he has a mini-dachshund and a beagle at home and he grew up with a dachshund that lived to the age of 16. It sounds like his beagle is like Oscar when it comes to stealing food.
So, the Roto Rooter man started to work in our house. He was up and down the stairs several times and Oscar was NOT going crazy. :banana: I know that Oscar would be a watchdog if we needed him to be, but in this case, he knew that we needed this person to be in our house. It turned out that we had a frozen drain pipe. We also asked the man about how to restrict the flow of hot water in our kitchen sink when we bathe Oscar. So, he got under the sink to see if we had a shut-off valve. Curious Oscar wanted to get under the sink with the guy. The guy reached his hand out and gently moved Oscar away by the muzzle. I would have thought that if a stranger did that to Oscar, the stranger would risk losing his hand. Oscar just backed right up. DH and I were commenting that this guy has the same "touch" as our trainer!!!
When the plumber went back upstairs, we decided to lock Oscar in the kitchen so that he would not follow the man around. When it was time for the guy to leave, my husband first had to go upstairs to get money to pay him. When DH came back down, the guy had gone into the kitchen and was sitting at the table WITH OSCAR ON HIS LAP!!!!!!!! I did not get to see that. This cannot be my Oscar. Someone must have switched him!!!!! The guy even had big plumber boots. Oscar hates boots!!!!! The guy was really nice and he was very fair with the price. So I hope that Oscar is just a really good judge of people. I still think that Oscar is the ultimate watch dog.