I am happy to report that the short marriage of Valentino and Natacha has ended. While Natacha was a good wife who enjoyed chasing and wrestling with her husband and would even give him the occasional bath, she was just plain stupid. I’d say she was also a little (or a lot) boring! When we would call Natacha, she would run the other direction. When we took her outside to potty, she would do a great job! The problem was that she was too stupid to realize that she had to potty ONLY outside. In the 3 months we had her, she only made it one full day without potty-ing in the house. One day!

Eventually, we began to blame Valentino for Natacha’s mistakes. It seemed incredible that one little dog could be that stupid! We feel certain that this tense situation caused major problems in Valentino and Natacha’s marriage (as it helped mine very little!).

Finally, Natacha (and her even more stupid owner) realized that she just didn’t have the brain capacity needed to become a member of the Smith family. The rest of us, after all, understand where it is appropriate to potty and where it isn’t! This is just a basic tenet of the Smith Creed. So, after much counseling, Natacha moved to the Dumb Friends League (the perfect name for a home for her). Our only regret is that we didn’t wait until Nana could take her since Nana’s greatest enjoyment in life is taking dogs to “the pound!” Sorry, Nana!!

As the Eurythmics sang, “Watch Me Walking Out the Door!”