Pets: Ditzy dog

You learn to accept and even chuckle at how your dog charges the door, barks a-blazing, when you pour boiled potatoes into a bowl on the kitchen counter (which makes a thrumming bump-bump-bump sound), when your hand raps a hard surface in passing, or even when she hears voices through closed windows across the street. This morning, though, Miss Molley charged the door a toda décibel after hearing her tail whap the sofa three times in rapid succession.