If you’re happy as a boarding house pup, you’re elated indeed. Food in a boardinghouse can’t compare with home-cooked meals, which works to the advantage of a canine waiting around to be tossed some scraps. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Happy as a Boarding House Pup”
A Texan friend of mine uses the expression happy as a boarding house pup and apparently a lot of Texans use this term. and I thought why would a pup at a boarding house be happy? I think I’ve heard about this. It’s because the food is known to be bad and so you on the sly you scrape it off so the dog can eat it under the table.
Oh.
Oh.
That makes a lot more sense.
I was just picturing like a bed and breakfast, you know, where the dog is so happy to see everybody and everybody’s missing their dogs back home, so they’re giving the dog lots of attention.
No, it’s the—
That makes a lot more sense.
The board comes with the room and they give you the bare minimum food and it’s usually terrible.
That makes so much more sense.
I’m so glad I mentioned that to you.
Happy as a boarding house pup.
The dog doesn’t care.
Not as much as the humans do.
