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Manuel's eyes became as huge as silver dollars, his head whip-lashed in the direction of the voice. "Mr..." he stammered. "Mr. Hagain! No! No sir." He quickly pushed himself away from the chain link fencing and returned to retrieving Frisky's food.
""No, not that," Randy protested Manuel feeding him. Randy carried a plate of eggs, bacon and toast.
"Oh, Jefe, I did not realize he was your dog/slave now."
"Well, I've got the key to his cage now. I was told that makes him mine. Right?"
"Of course, Jefe..."
"Oh, come on, Manuel," Randy said unlocking the cage door. "Not you too? If I had the key to your car, it would still be your car."
"See. Yes, yes..."
Randy let himself into the cage and sat the plate of food on the ground. It wasn't bits and pieces of a past meals jumbled together. The eggs were over easy and separate from whole strips of bacon. The toast filled the other quarter of the plate. There was even a fork included which Randy removed for obvious reasons.
Frisky looked up at him and then back at the food.
"Go on," Randy instructed. "I'm not hand feeding you. Eat."
"You'll spoil your dog/slave like that Jefe."
"I'll take the risk, Manuel." Randy said. "Go clean that dog bowl out real good. It looks like there's still last week's food dried in there."
Frisky was well into slurping up the slippery eggs. The yoke dripped from his lips as he chomped down on the bacon.
"Of course, Jefe," Manuel pushed his cart away.
Randy could hear the cart tires crunch through the gravel on the way back to the back yard area. While Frisky ate, Randy went to the other two dogs cages and opened them up, bending down to pet them and let them run toward the house.
He returned to Frisky's cage were the dog/slave was finishing up the toast. Randy was impressed he ate it all with no hands. But his face displayed all the signs of eating with his mouth.
Frisky wiped at his mouth with his forearm, which then showed the past few days worth of mouth wiping building up on his skin. The older, dried food was flaking off.
"I can see why the girls all go gaga over you."
Frisky just sat and looked at him.