Well, it happened again!  I don’t know how, but I definitely know why.  Newt, our family’s only black Lab, finally outsmarted me – the oldest and wisest German shorthaired pointer ever.  How could I, Doc, let Newt outsmart me?

It started one evening after our people ate their dinner.  We were all sitting in the living room watching TV when the Queen (known only to us as the other one) decided to eat one of those delicious chocolate ice cream bars that has the small stick in it.  Not just any stick mind you but a smooth, round edge one.  She accidentally dropped it right in front of Newt.  It only took one nanosecond for Newt to swallow whole the entire chocolate ice cream bar including the stick.  The Queen started looking under the couch and around the carpeted floor for

any sign of the chocolate ice cream bar.  But, alas, the wide grin on Newt’s face said it all.