A DIET!!!!!

Jackie: "I have a BONE to pick with Mama!"

Cookie: "What kind of a bone? Beef?"

Jackie: "No, a 'figurative' bone."

Cookie: "What's a figurative bone? Does it have to do with body shape?"

Jackie: "Exactly! That meanie has put me on a diet! I am not getting enough to eat! She told James to reduce my dinner and for breakfast I only get eight pieces of dog food."

Cookie: "Well you do look a little porky to me."

Annie: "A fat weener dog starts looking like a wrapping paper tube."

Jackie: "What do you mean!?"

Cookie: "Well, look at my figurative. I have a waist."

Annie: "And look at my figurative! I really have a waist since I have been ill. Mama has been feeding me a little extra."
Jackie: "I have a waist.....well, maybe....a little waist......"

Cookie: "Jackie, you are a very small dog. You can't eat as much as a bigger dog or you will put on weight. Besides, I don't think you are going to have much luck picking a figurative bone with Mama. I would go straight for the beef bone."

Jackie: "I don't like diets!"

Cookie: "I don't think anyone does, Pup."