A half-hour ago, Sparky and I were sitting on the couch having our morning chat.  When I left him, he was warming his bones in front of the fire.  I just went to get him for breakfast, and this is the situation.  I was forty feet away, and hadn’t heard anything.

I asked, “Sparky, what happened in here?”

His answer, “I don’t know nuthin’.”

I pressed, “Why are there balls scattered all over the place?”

Sparky is nonchalant.  “What’s a ball?”

Friends are skeptical that Sparky and I can have these conversations, but take a look at this face.  Sparky is easy to read.

Sparky is too adorable for me to mind collecting the balls.  To seal the deal, he is doing that half-cycle tail wag and rolling over for some belly action.