Two Brief Conversations With The Dog:

CONVERSATION 1:

~START~

Scene begins in living room. Alice & Bingo are sat on sofa and bed respectively, the former reading and the latter chewing on a tennis ball, when Bingo leaves his tennis ball, gets up and walks across to where Alice is sat...

BINGO: (walks across, stares at Alice for a moment, then realizing that she is not paying him any attention, hits her hard with his paw)
ALICE: (having been unpleasantly jolted out of wherever the book had taken her, she looks at dog over the top of the her glasses) ...did you want something, Bingo?
BINGO: (wags tail)

~END~

CONVERSATION 2:

~START~

Scene begins outdoors. Alice and Bingo are walking home after a nice, long and successful walk. As it has been raining heavily, not only is the river high against the banks and moving rapidly, but there are large puddles lining the pavement along which they are walking. Alice is both bemused and ruefully amused to note that Bingo is carefully avoiding the puddles by treading with the utmost delicate care along the precariously narrow dry edges. A conversation ensues...

ALICE: (bemused) So, you'll jump into a scarily fast moving river without a moments' hesitation, but getting your feet wet in less than an inch worth of puddle is out of the question??
BINGO: (wags to show willing then goes back to careful and delicate treading)
ALICE: (sighs and shakes head) Right-ho...

~END~