Dog caught by sofa

Tedder was a beautiful gentle German Shepherd with a well developed sense of humour. John was a colleague of my husband’s who used to stay with us when he was in the north, which is surprising as he was a little nervous of dogs. Though to give him his due he got on quite well with Tedder in a guarded sort of way.

 Unfortunately there was some reason we had to go out,  I don’t remember the reason now but it was a time when John was staying with us and he offered to baby sit while we were out. We left him sat in the lounge reading a book of some description, Tedder lay in front of the fire one of his favourite places it was a nice domestic scene. As John became more absorbed in his book Tedder moved alongside the end of the sofa by John then without warning turned and barked strait into his ear. John shot into the air and fled into the kitchen closing the door behind him. Meanwhile Tedder climbed on to the sofa and made himself comfortable, this was against the house rules but John was in the kitchen suffering from shock, so why not take advantage of the situation.

We returned home to find John in the kitchen, having calmed down he explained what had happened..  The sofa had loose cushions on top of elastic bands. On hearing us Tedder in a panic had tried to get off the sofa before we discovered him and had dislodged the cushions. So as we entered the lounge all we saw was a shame faced German Shepherd suspended on elastic bands frantically waving his legs in mid air trying to get down. There was no need to read the riot act to him for it was the last time he ever tried to get on any of the furniture.