The Look

The yesterday morning i got to experience the Look.  It's funny how all animals, human and dogs alike, can have the look.  The look is sheer terror.  The terror that something is happening or going to happen and nothing can be done about it.  My wife gets the look quite often when we are messing around in a tickle war and i lift her arm over her head.  I don't even have to tickle her armpit.  All i have to do is think about it and she has the look.  As uncommon as it is, Moby, our dog gave us the look.  After all it's really hard to scare a dog.  Surprisingly, it was his own doing.  After coming home from an uneventful night, i was greeted at the door by moby like usual.  After crawling into bed next to stacey, i found out moby is in total rebellion with sleeping in the same bed as my wife.  I gave the explanation that it's because she uses her boppy body pillow, and moby uses it during the day when he is sleeping in the bed.  After yelling up, our signal for moby to jump up on the bed, moby jumped up on the bed and decided to lay down at the foot of the bed.  After like 5 turn arounds he finally laid down precariously close to the edge of the bed.  At first he was totally fine laying down like most dogs lay down.  His front body was upright with his nose between his two front paws, and his back legs turned to one side.  Moby however doesn't like to sleep like this.  Instead he loves to flop down so he is laying completely on his side as if somebody left him for dead.  So me and my wife are laying there and he does his flop.  Only his flop shifts his center of gravity and now is butt is sliding off the bed.  In like slow motion the sheer terror look quickly comes across his face as he bolts his upper body upright and digs his front claws in the bedspread.  It's no use. A body in motion remains in motion.  He falls off the bed taking part of the bedspread with him.  Laughter erupts in our room as both stacey and i witness this event.  Moby gets up and walks around the room trying to either shake off his embaressment or figure out who moved the bed.  Either way he decides to play it safe and lay down on his bed on the floor.  A lesson had been learned but will probably be repeated sometime in the near future.