SplishSplash

Recent spring rains had caused a nice stream for the young soft-colored pup to play in.  Splashing and kicking water made for a great game.  It wasn't going to have been a long game but then he found a frog sitting in the stream.  Perfect!  Coran walked closer slowly to not scare it.  Coran kept waiting for it to run so that he could chase it down but, nothing so dramatic happened.  The pup walked up to the large frog and it just sat there.  "hey," he whacked it with a paw and it took a small bored hop away.  Coran stepped up to it again, whacking it, once more it moved but not far.  Small animals normally run so why wasn't this one?

Coran lowered his chest with rump in air, "Hey!" the pup barked at it pleased to see it moved a little farther down the stream.  Coran bounced along to splash through the puddles with thoughts of biting it but found it almost out of sight already.  The frog was halfway burried in the mudnext to the water.  Coran tried to pick it up with his mouth and for a second had a frog leg and mud in his mouth but the frog squirmed out, saved by the mud.

Coran didn't want another bite of mud and tried digging the frog out of the mud. The pup's paw struck frog but the frog leapt directly into the spring and darted into the mud at the bottom, and kicking up the mud to dirty up the water for a moment so that Coran lost sight of his prey.  Clearly he hadn't really wanted the frog.  Now his pretty cream colored paws were black with mud.  Oh well! Plenty of water to clean them off with more splashing.