Talking Dogs - by Michael (age 12)

You would think that because Cooper is a dog, he wouldn't annoy us too much by constantly asking questions. Right? Wrong. Although he may not be able to ask in words, he finds other ways to ask us for things. There is one in particular, however, that mainly corresponds to me.
Cooper loves to get the bottom of his arm scratched and massaged over and over again. I'm the one who usually takes on this role since he loves it so much. But although I have the satisfaction of making him happy, there is a down side. Often, usually at night, he'll come up to me, sit down, and pick his paw and arm up, trying to tell me to scratch it. So, I do. Maybe I'll do it for a minute, then I'll stop. But as if it wasn't bad enough that my own dog dog has learned to ask me for a massage every now and then, but when I put his arm down, he often picks it right back up and waves it in front of me. He's a lucky dog. He has his own way of asking this "machine" for a massage any time he wants. Wouldn't you like that?!