I hear the animal rights people have decided that it is abusive and cruel for clowns to make children laugh in the circus. They’ve already gotten the lions and tigers, elephants and horses, ponies and monkeys.

The dogs have to be next, we have to move quickly. Soon, the ringside act in the circus will be yoga dancing and trapeze.

So I think Bud and I should run off for a while to join the circus, while there’s time. It’s something I have always wanted to do. We should do it before the righteous people have driven all the magic from our world in the name of loving animals.

More more I see Bud as a circus dog. He is agile, moves quickly, loves to jump on things, I can see him in one of those little motorized carts that spin around with the clowns.

But first, I have to teach him to do some tricks, and he is distractable dog, he would rather eat donkey manure. Come and see one of our first practice sessions.