Training wiht Wolfie - Chapter 5 – Part 1 of 2

Training With Wolfie

By Karen Singer

Chapter 5 – Part 1 of 2

     Rosa watched out her window the next morning and was pleased to see Brian hurrying to his car and driving away.  He had been called for another substitute teaching job.  She knew that those jobs had been getting fewer and fewer for him. 

     She spent the morning handling the business of her rental properties – what few things she could handle.  It seemed that being a landlord, especially one with many properties, was a twenty-four hour a day job.  She often got calls from tenants at the oddest hours – usually with things that she passed on to one of her maintenance men.  Men who were nothing at all like Brian.

     Later in the morning, while a landscaping crew was cutting her lawn as well as Brian’s lawn, she stopped by and personally checked on the progress of one of her newest properties.  There was a crew of workers there.  By the looks of things, the house didn’t look like it would be fit to live in for another few months – at least.  But she had been through this many times before now.  In just a few weeks, the place would be spotless and ready for whoever was willing to pay her fees.  It was still possible that Connie would be renting this house for a few months, but it was something she seriously doubted.

     Before going home, she went shopping for some groceries – she was running out of dog treats faster than she had planned on.  No question as to why.  She also made a quick stop at the pet supply store before going home. 

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     Brian, as usual, wasn’t having a great day with the kids.  It seemed like they were adamant about being worse for him than ever.  Third-graders!  Ugh!  Why couldn’t it have been kindergarteners?  Twice during the day, he got hit by little pieces of paper thrown by the kids – and he never once saw who had done it.  By the end of the day, he was just grateful to get out of there!  But going home held worse horrors.

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     Rosa was vacuuming the middle of her living room when she saw his car pull into his driveway through her front window.  She saw him get out and look at her house for several moments before he lowered his head and slowly headed into his house, never looking up from the ground the entire way.  She could tell that he was troubled again, and she had a feeling that it was more than just what she was doing to him that was causing it.  Since he was coming back from school, then more than likely he had once again had a bad day with the kids. 

     Well, she would go easier on him today than yesterday.  Yesterday had been a groundbreaking day.  If she was going to move forward with her plans, then yesterday had to happen.  She grabbed her roll of tape and the bag from the pet store and went out to her back porch.  She waited for him. 

     If Brian hadn’t been so afraid of her, he wouldn’t have even considered going.  But he was afraid.  She hurt men!  Professionally?  There was just something about her that made him believe that completely.  What would she do to him if he didn’t go?  Very few real possibilities actually came to mind, but they were all possibilities that he quickly shut away.  He didn’t want to think about what she really might do to him.  And whatever it was, he was sure that it would be a lot worse than what she was doing to him now. 

     Too afraid not to go, he removed the clothes he had worn to school and didn’t replace them with anything at all.  Feeling totally embarrassed about being naked, even alone in his own house, he headed slowly for his back door, trying all the way to come up with the courage to keep going.  She hurt men!  Professionally?

     Rosa didn’t see him open his door to come outside until she was just about ready to phone him.  She saw him looking around carefully with his door only slightly open.  Then, totally naked, he slipped through it and made a mad dash for the fence.  She smiled.  The minute he reached the fence, he was down on his hands and knees, crawling as fast as he could for her gate.  He was obviously afraid of being seen naked.  Well, that was something she would eventually have to train out of him.

     His running and furious crawling quickly attracted Wolf’s attention and the dog ran over towards Brian, barking excitedly. 

      “Quiet, Wolf!” Rosa commanded as she headed toward the gate.  Brian was already opening it, and fighting his way past Wolf to get through.  Rosa helped him by closing the gate behind him.  Since he was again down on his hands and knees, Wolf was jumping all over him, mostly on top of him.  “Wolf, move!” Rosa commanded.  The big dog backed off, but not without a few more welcoming licks to Brian’s face. 

     Rosa pulled out a length of tape and knelt down in front of him right where he was.  She set the tape on the ground in front of his hand.  “Paws!” she ordered. 

     If Brian hadn’t been so afraid of her, he wouldn’t have even come out of his house.  Having little choice in the matter, he closed his hand up into the required position and set it firmly down on top of the tape.  Rosa quickly wrapped his hand up tightly.  A minute later, both hands were useless to him once again.  She stood up.  “Come on up to the porch,” she told him.  “I’ve got something else for you there.”

     Brian was fairly sure he didn’t want to know what she was talking about, but then, there wasn’t much else he figured she could do to him?  He crawled along behind her towards the porch, and up the stairs.  She pulled something out of a plastic bag and held it up for him to see.  A dog collar!  Even knowing what she was doing to him, the sight of it turned his stomach.  It was all leather, solid red, and looked to be heavy enough for Wolf.  His body shuddered involuntarily the moment she pulled it up around his neck and buckled it in place, fortunately not too tightly.  He felt her inserting two of her fingers between the collar and his neck to make sure he had plenty of room.  But he had no doubt that there was no way it would ever simply slip over his head and off again.

      “There,” she exclaimed with great satisfaction.  “Much better!”

     Brian didn’t think so at all.  He shook his head slightly to get the feel of the thing.  It didn’t really seem to move at all but he could feel the weight of it around his neck. 

     Before she let Brian go off and play with Wolf, she put both of her “dogs” through the few things they had already learned.  Brian felt more like a dog than ever with the collar around his neck…especially when she made him bark.

     When she was done, Rosa shooed them both off of the porch and out into the yard for a while.  She went inside and looked up a phone number she hadn’t called in a long while.  Since Brian had accepted the taping of his hands and the collar so easily today, she had no doubts at all about her next step.  “Hello, Mr. Tolliver?”

      “Edward Tolliver here,” the slight English accent on the other end replied.

      “I don’t know if you’ll remember me, but this is Rosa Murphy.”

      “Aaahh,” the voice on the other end crooned.  “Madam Rosa.  I haven’t heard from you in a long while.”  His voice dropped just a little bit in volume.  “Please forgive me, but didn’t I hear that you retired?”

      “Yes,” Rosa replied, “I’m no longer in the business.  I rent houses now instead.”

      “Ah, such a pity.”  He paused for a moment.  “Let me see…if I remember correctly, your last order was for two red leather corsets.  One of them locking.”

      “You have an awfully good memory.  Yes.  In fact, I still have one of them.”

      “Ah!  But what happened to the other, if I may ask?”

     Rosa chuckled.  “At the time, I had a sub that I wasn’t too happy with.  I kept him in it for about three month, constantly tightening the corset until it was as tight as it would go…and his figure closely matched mine.  Then I inserted several very nasty locks and told him I never wanted to see him again.”

      “Ah, Madam Rosa.  It’s such a pity you retired.  But what can I do for you now?”

      “Well,” Rosa began.  “I have kind of an odd request.  I need you to make something for me, but…”

      “You know it would be a pleasure for me to make you anything at all dear Madam.”

      “Well, it’s not exactly for me.  And this is very much out of the ordinary.  In fact, I’m afraid it may even be a bit of a challenge for you.”

      “Aha!  A challenge!  Now you’ve got me intrigued!”

      “Tell you what, Mr. Tolliver, can you come by here one evening and let me show you what I’m interested in?”

      “You can’t come to my shop?”

      “That wouldn’t be a very good idea,” Rosa replied.  “Not this time.”

      “Hmmm.  You must be doing something interesting then.  You did say it wasn’t for you, so I assume it’s for somebody else?”

      “That is correct.”

      “And I thought you were retired!”

      “I am.  This is just…something that came up.”

     Tolliver laughed.  “My dear Madam Rosa, how about tomorrow evening.  Will that be soon enough?”

      “Perfect, Edward!  I look forward to seeing you.”

     Rosa hung up her phone.  Another major step was in the process now.  If Brian didn’t start fighting back soon, then his chances of ever getting out of it were going to be non-existent!

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     At dinner time that night, Rosa again brought Brian and Wolf into the kitchen as she had done the night before.  And once again, Brian had to go through the indignity of having to finish one of Wolf’s large dog treats while Rosa sat at the table by herself and finished her own dinner.  And like the evening before, as soon as she was done, she put a can of dog food out for Wolf to eat.  But this time, when she served Brian his dinner, she took a brand new dog bowl down off of her counter. 

     Brian was a bit shocked to see the bowl, but at least he was happy to note that it contained normal “human” food.  Before he tried to eat any of it, he glanced over at Wolf who had been eating his own food with his usual gusto.  Wolf picked up his head and began sniffing the air as he looked over toward Brian.  The moment that Wolf left his own dish to head toward Brian, Brian quickly stuck his head into his own bowl and began trying to eat as fast as he could.  He felt Wolf’s head trying to poke its way between the sides of the bowl and his head, but Brian stoutly refused to bring his own head up out of the bowl.  In the narrow space between Brian’s head and the sides of the bowl, Wolf couldn’t get his snout far enough into it to really get at much of the food.  His tongue actually got most of what he was able to get. 

     Then, to try to keep Wolf further away, Brian started moving around to the side while still keeping his head in the bowl.  He wound up pushing Wolf around too.  The movement made it even more difficult for Wolf to get at the human food in the bowl, and eventually, Brian heard Wolf grumble a bit and move his head away.  Success!  Brian dared not lift his head out of the bowl for even a second, even when he knew that Wolf had moved away from him.  And before he knew it, Brian had actually finished his own dinner and Wolf had gotten very little of it at all.  He lifted his head and saw Rosa staring at him from her spot, leaning against the counter.

      “Very good,” she praised him.  “You managed that very well.  Don’t forget to drink some of your water before you finish.  I’m sure you must be thirsty after eating like that.  And be sure to drink plenty of it.”

     Water?  Until she said it, Brian hadn’t realized that he was thirsty.  But now he was faced with trying to drink out of the water bowl next to his food bowl again.  He remembered how difficult it had been last night.  He stuck his face down by the water, and stuck his tongue into it.  Over and over again, he tried to lap up some water, but he got very little for his efforts each time.  Still, he was getting some water.  He heard Wolf licking his own food bowl clean and he looked up to watch.  Wolf moved his head away from his food bowl and over to his own water bowl.  Then he stuck his head halfway under the water, splashing some of it onto the floor before he pulled his head back and began lapping greedily at it.  His action gave Brian an idea.  He too stuck his face down into the water, but while he was down there, he tried to lap more water up with his tongue.  It worked, but not really so well.  He still had to pull his head back up to breath.  And when he did, he saw that much of the food that had been smeared all over his face was now down in his water, making it very unappetizing.  He heard Rosa chuckle a bit at him before she walked away. 

     It wasn’t until much later in the evening when Rosa finally allowed him to go home, removing his collar and the tape from his hands just before she opened the gate for him.  This time, he had no clothes to grab off of the fence.  But he still jumped quickly to his feet and ran back to his house just as soon as he was able. 

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