Furwaggle Chapter 30

Chapter 30
Game Day

Through-out the real world sports is a treasured pastime. Depending where you are, the national sport may be baseball, football, soccer, or even car racing. In the fictitious dreamland, called Furwaggle, most of the commonly known sports are played. Today is soccer day and tomorrow it may well be something else.
It is the semifinals match of Dog River High school versus Cat Fur High. It will be an interesting match up, speed against agility, a real fur raising game. This will surely bring out a crowd, instead of the normal 5 or 6 spectators there will be at least 11 or 12, this includes the relatives of both teams.
Wiggles doesn’t attend any of these games due to his poor eyesight. He never can tell who has the ball or even where the playing field is. Zorba did play one game early in the season, but was banned from playing because he would pick up the ball and run with it. Seems that the idea of how to make a score was somewhat different than the official rules of soccer. But Fluffy on the other hand was an avid sports fan.
Fluffy never really played the game; in fact he didn’t even go onto the playing field. He would run up and down the sidelines and bark at the ball. But if the ball did go out of the playing field then he considered it to be fair for him to chase it and do his best to bite or otherwise render it out of action. Tearing the ball into little pieces was Fluffy’s favorite part of the game. This was one of the reasons many spare balls were on hand. Another oddity was that the umpire had lost his whistle and would use a duck call to officiate the game. This worked pretty well but from time to time the playing field had to be cleared of the wild ducks that responded and used the field for a landing place.
The game was about half over when someone kicked the soccer ball out of bounds. To Fluffy that was a call for action. He took off after the ball as it bounced off into the tall grass. After a few bounces Fluffy had almost caught up to it and he lowered his nose for a final leap upon his victim. There was a mighty leap but not at the ball, it was straight up into the air and was punctuated with a howl that could be heard for miles. When Fluffy landed he began to run in a small circle and the howl got even louder. This of course brought the spectators to see what all the ruckus was about. One of these spectators was Doctor Chicken and he knew Fluffy well enough to know that that howling was his normal hurting yowl. When the good Doctor got to where the hubbub was at, he noticed Porgy Porcupine was in the center of the circle that Fluffy was making. Porgy’s cried out, “Get that crazy pup away from me”. “What happened”, asked Doctor Chicken. Timidly Porgy replied, “I was just setting there minding my own business watching the game and all of a sudden I felt this cool nose run into me”. Doctor Chicken said, “Ok I get the picture. Now we have to see if we can put a stop to all this howling”. After a little coaxing and the help of 5 others holding on to Fluffy he was penned down. There was Fluffy lying on his back with 4 porcupine quills sticking in his nose. With the help of pliers the doctor was able to pull out each quill one at a time. As each quill was removed Fluffy let out another ear splitting yelp. When the last quill was extracted everyone let go of Fluffy and jumped back so as not to be within biting range. Fluffy jumped up and put both paws to his nose and let out another yap as tears ran from his eyes. He turned to Doctor Chicken and said with a cry, “Doc my nose still hurts”. With a very professional tone Doctor Chicken said, “Well Fluffy I suggest you put something cold on that runny nose of yours. And I will be sending you my bill tomorrow”. With a little whimper Fluffy started off toward the chuck house.
Wiggles was sitting on the chuck house porch as Fluffy arrived. With a little chuckle Wiggles called out, “Seems that you have a little problem. Have you been sticking you nose into other peoples business”? Fluffy didn’t stop to chat, he just went on into the chuck house and as the door closed behind him Wiggles said to himself, “Yep, been putting his nose where it doesn’t belong”.
My tiny mind thinks that it is OK to be curious but not to be nosey
Continued… (Maybe).
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