237: What Can a Dog do?

Sometimes human beans, and my beans in particular, amaze me.

Take my beans, for example.  (Please, take my beans.)

Some months ago, I was not very well.  Although I tried very hard not to show this to the beans (in case they adjusted my diet),  I was looser than normal in controlling my outputs.  My poor beans had to wake up to a wet or messy kitchen rug.  (We have a tacit agreement that that is where I perform if I must in the night.)

Though my outputs  have been under control for quite some time, my beans (well, let’s be honest, it is always TOWTLH) put out what are called puppy mats (absorbent pieces of material) in case I do something in the night.

This is embarrassing on a number of levels.

Firstly, I’m am 9 years old - and I object to being treated like a puppy.

Secondly, I don’t like being reminded every night of the few occasions on which I lost control of bladder or bowels.

However the real annoyance/frustration is that very occasionally, like one night this week, when I do something, they mutter as they pick up the soiled mats and are ‘cooler’ in their treatment of me for the rest of the day.

So, they put out mats  to collect any mess, then ‘punish’ me for giving them something to collect.

What is a dog supposed to do?