Sudden Habit

My dog had suddenly developed a bad habit of loud barking about 4 o’clock in the morning. He was disturbing the entire neighborhood, and several people had complained.

One morning he started howling, and when I looked out the window – I saw that someone was throwing something at him.

I quietly went out the back door and snuck around to the front to catch the culprit. To my surprise, I found my next-door neighbor throwing rocks into my yard, and just missing the dog.

Of course, I demanded an explanation.

"I’m not trying to hit your dog," he explained. "My mother-in-law has been visiting us for the last two weeks and she says if she loses one more night of her beauty sleep – she’ll leave!"