Bad Doggy

Flash fiction challenge 100 — Day 67

“Daisy. You crazy bitch. Don’t eat that!” Zach shouts to the cocker spaniel.

“Mom, Zach called Daisy a bitch again! Mooooom!” Zoe whines plaintively towards the camper.

The camper is sitting in an undeveloped federal site reserved for such recreation. Truly, there is no real campsite here. No fire ring, no picnic tables, no restrooms, no showers, not even a trash can. There was just the barest hint of a road. But this is the type of camping site Ella prefers. She is constantly defending her unusual choice of camping sites to her two children. She prefers to, as she says, ‘rough it.’ Neither Zach (twelve) nor Zoe (four) has the heart to point out the huge RV, with its three slide-outs, walk-in shower, a better kitchen than they have in their tiny apartment, is hardly roughing it. But they give their mom a pass since the divorce.

Daisy continues trying to eat the discarded yogurt container.

“Give me that, you crazy bitch,” Zach says as he drops to his knees and attempts to wrestle the plastic container from her mouth. Now Daisy thinks it’s a game of ‘tug’ and is happy to oblige the wiry twelve-year-old.

Daisy is Zoe’s dog, and she is always eating things she shouldn’t.

“Here, let me do it,” Zoe says. “DAISY, DROP THAT!”

Incredibly, Daisy immediately obeys her tiny mistress and drops the mangled plastic container.

“Mooooom!” Daisy shouts over her shoulder.

The RV door bangs open. “Dang it, Zee. What did we agree to about that word? Huh?” Ella shouts as she barges out of the motor home, towel-drying her hair in the time-honored roughing-it fashion.

Zach and Zoe both turn to watch their mother approach them. Daisy whines and whimpering and excitedly runs to meet her momma’s momma. The three of them can never figure this. No matter how short a time is between Daisy’s last seeing Ella, she always carries on as if it had been years since their last encounter. Despite being Zoe’s dog, Daisy usually ends up nestled against Ella’s legs on top of her bed every morning. A habit they at first tried to discourage, but ever since Jim had left, Ella didn’t mind the crazy dog’s affectionate if forgetful nature.

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