I just thought it was funny.  I had made a spicy tofu salad with these
"Thai Chilies" that turned out spicier than I thought.  I had gotten
these thin 4 cm (1.5 inch) chilies from a local Asian grocery, last week
they had slightly different ones that were a little bit sweet still
spicy but not very spicy.  These were all they had yesterday and they were
very spicy.

After my girlfriend complained that the salad was too spicy I told her
she could drop a piece (say a 1-2mm (1/16 inch) slice) on the ground so the
dog would learn that he couldn't eat everything on the ground.

Well he did find that chili pepper.

He was convinced that it was something to eat.  The problem was that if
he got his nose too close he would run away.  He would run in, smell it
then run to his bed roll on his back and spin around in circles.  He
then would go to it and go "Oh something on the floor for me to eat!"
and go and smell it again, then he would jump up and down and run away.

After 6 or more rounds of this, with us laughing at him, he decided to
try barking at.  Then he ran at it really fast and picked up in his
mouth and ran back to his bed.  He spit it out immediately of course, he
hated it!  Then he tried rolling around on it, then he smelled his bed
and he didn't like it any more.  He would circle his bed and step in,
look at it, smell it and then jump out of his bed and run in a circle.
Finally he sat down, outside of his bed and had a mild case of hiccups.

We finally stopped laughing at him, and took the little tiny bit of
pepper away from him and put it in the trash.  He went back into his bed
sniffed around and looked very relieved to be able to lie down in peace
after having been chased from his bed by the little tiny slice of
pepper.

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-R*S
                                   Berlin, Deutschland
Robin * Slomkowski                 schipperke@s.rslomkow.org
Duco, 11.06.2004                   http://duco.parts-unknown.com