Funny Funny Pearl

     I am in the kitchen and Gretchen is sleeping in the next room. I was hearing a funny little aroo, aroo, aroo, which I have never heard before. I thought it was coming in the open windows from outside from one of the neighborhood dogs. I get up and go to the window to listen closer. No, it is not coming from outside but coming down from upstairs. Oh, my what is wrong with Pearl. I run up stairs and find Pearl standing at the edge of the bed. She is smiling at me with a puzzle look on her face which said." how am I to get down off the bed, Mom", looking at the floor. In her mind she couldn't get down because of the large pile of dirty bed clothes on the floor in front of her.  I had to move the pile before she would even think about  jumping off the bed.  She looked at me in the eye ..shook her bum bum and happily jumped off the bed. I have never heard her ask for anything before in her 3 yrs living with me. She will bark at outside sounds and when she is riding in the car but otherwise she is very quiet. Unlike her noisy sisser, Gretchie.