Hey Rover you there? Rover?
Ralph, you up the tree again?
Yes, it’s that kid again.
Little Jack?
Yes him, horrible kid, always chasing me, pulling my ears.
Ah stop whinging Ralph, get down and play ball with him.
No way, you seen those balls, bigger than me.
You are such a wimp Ralph.
He throws them at my head.
Well it’s a good thing you can climb trees.
Couldn’t till he came along, now I see him and I’m up the tree.
Well you better come down soon.
Why?
His dad’s been cleaning his gun.
Oh, right, play ball!
Morpethroad 
a gun??? nooooo!!!! He’s too cute, best he just runs off and finds an owner who will treat him properly. 😉
I’ll tell him to go round your place then?
*nods* uh huh
Ok
Hey Ralph get ya miserable self round to Jenny’s, pronto. I’ll distract the dad, you make a run for it , ready, after three, BANG, opps.
😦 …poor Ralphy
What because he’s going to your place?
he got shot??? No he can come here anytime!
he will if he doesn’t shift himself soon, dad’s polishing his sights…..Run Ralph run..
down south Ralph…down south!!!
Cute story, Michael. I think you mean whining not whinging. 😉 Glad you were around early in the game to let me know about the link tool. I had it scheduled wrong. You’ve diverted potential FF disaster. Many thanks.
Shalom,
Rochelle
No Rochelle, good Aussie term whinging, as in complaining. Its new year Rochelle, and cute is good. Thank you.
I’d never have known that. Thanks for the bit of cultural exchange. Love it!
No worries, good to think there’s something to learn everyday….though I know we talk funny some times, and I like the idea of a ‘cultural exchange’, makes it all sound fair dinkum.
Yep, we use it in Scotland too, maybe far too frequently!
Used all over the UK… I sometimes find myself saying it! It’s the Irish in me. 😉
Highly amusing, Sir ST2.
Highly – geddit?
All the best to you, me old mucker.
Thank you. I geddit!
Very funny! And the term ‘whinging’, Rochelle, is generally used in reference to us ‘poms’ (the Brits). 🙂 Snappy dialogue!
Thanks Sandra, i didn’t want to disparage any Pom by referring to you as whinging poms, though with the cricket over going as it is, you may well be whinging about your team.
I think they whinge more than adequately for themselves… 😦
hahha…I guess so….Happy New Year Sandra. Have a good one.
You too!
Ouch! And I was just starting to like you! 🙂 Good story Tommy, even if it did have a Pommy dog in it! 🙂
Thank you jwd, and I was trying to be nice to the poms, well as nice as an Aussie can be to them.
🙂
LOL Sandra, especially when they’re losing at cricket. Oh my look! 5/32
Thanks Lyn, today we all wear our pink shirts.
Poor little fella…..I will send my cats up to play with him.
Cats and dog up a tree, be interesting to see.
Poor dog, a life in the firing line dodging bullets and balls. I’d get out of my tree too.
Thanks Mike one hope he does get out of there, it doesn’t appear a friendly place.
A dog with some sense… best way to get away from those kids
Thanks Bjorn, what some dogs have to do for some peace.
I enjoyed this but WordPress is being really quirky (nicest way to put it) these last couple days and I’m not getting a like button to press. Consider yourself liked.
janet
Thanks Janet I see this morning that the ‘like’ button is now working, but having you say it makes such a difference. Not everyday someone actually says it now is it.
Yes I smiled at this one. You actually told the story of why that dog is up the tree and the kid is looking up at him. Very well done.
Thank you so much, happy you enjoyed this one.
Haha! Play ball indeed! LOL! Love this Summers. You’ll get no whinging about it from this Sheila! 😀
Good onya darl, that’s the sort of grouse stuff I luv hearin’ fromya.
Hahaha! Throw another shrimp on the barbie! (That’s all I know!)
LOL, very cute!! 🙂 🙂
Thank you Helen. The poor dog, or clever dog depending on how you look at it.
Oh too funny Michael! I named my dog Ralph too! Great minds. Mine is much different though. The dog would be better off running away and finding a new home without bad kids and guns. 🙂
Thanks Jackie, I notice from the comments there are plenty of offers to help Ralph.
Cute story.
But – poor Ralphie. 🙂
Thanks RoSy, he;s a dog RoSy..
Very funny!!!! Good dialogue, and inventive use of the photo prompt. Nicely done!
Thank you Jan, have a good year.
Starting the new year off by threatening a dog with a gun. How can you go wrong there? 🙂
Thank you Adam.
Run, Ralph, run! I liked the name swap and the ending. And yes, whinging is in my vocab too – I often get pulled up on it by NAmericans though…
Thanks Jenny.
Thank you Lala, I appreciate you reading my post.
Pleasure Sir ! 🙂 xx
Great fun. And great advice from Rover. Bow wow!
Thank you Patrick.
He goes to all the trouble to learn how to climb the tree and now it turns out dad’s got a gun!
Poor Ralph 🙂
Got to be a disappointment coming hasn’t there. Thanks for reading and your comment.
Creative and fun. I love the whimsy here, Michael… though Rochelle’s grandbaby is clearly a girl! And poor, poor Ralphie!
Thanks Dawn, I took license on the sex of the child, shame I got it wrong though.
Hope you are getting stronger.
No shame in this wonderful story, Michael! Seems lots of people changed details, and that’s why it’s fiction. I was just being playful; sorry if it didn’t come across. 😉
Dawn, from the little I know of you I have learned that you are a very playful person, I am too. Thanks again we must always be having fun on our blogs…..when that stops where will we be then???? I ask you?? Have a good day. Sorry we are giving you poms a thrashing in the cricket, but you deserve it I am sure……yes you do….you see who i support can’t you.
No doubt. On all counts. 😉
Poor dog to be stuck with this family — the kid throws balls at his head, and the dad’s cleaning his gun. Smart dog, though, to climb the tree to get away!
Thanks Zooky, though you can’t help but think its a moment of desperation.
The dog should take a leap of faith and jump over the fence.
Thanks Liz, one would hope he gets out of the fix he appears to be in.
Maybe Ralph can trick the kid into going up in the tree.
Hey JK that’s a brilliant idea. Thanks for your comment…lol….hmmm….. think that’s another 100 words.
Yes, its that kid again – I think you need an apostrophe (it’s) and a full stop. Sorry, it’s the proofreader in me, can’t keep it under control!
Maybe the father is going to shoot Ralph, for egging Rover on? Or even ‘the kid’? Or himself? There is more than one possible conclusion to this, I feel.
I love Ralph and Rover. They are a brilliant twosome as characters.
Happy New Year.
Ann
Thank you Ann and a Happy New Year to you. Thank you to your proof reader side, corrected. The beauty of 100 words is you often create a situation where an ambiguous ending comes into play. I am pleased you have read it this way. Michael
I like ambiguity (as opposed to vagueness). It gives my imagination further to roam. 🙂
You sure get around Mr T2. Another good story. I think I might just have to follow you.
Thank you Lyn, and thank you for following my blog.
clever dog but really, people who shoot dogs well, not nice. actually someone did shoot my dog. luckily the bullet went right through his leg and not hit any bone or nerves. just blood everywhere. random shooting. awful. but your story, a cute one. 🙂
Thank you Sun well my story is fiction, thankfully, I wouldn’t like anyone shooting my dog, if I had one.
A ball would be much better than a gun. Fun story, Michael!
Thank Amy, and yes a ball would certainly be more fun, but the gun made you sit up and take notice…..lol