The solution was so obvious.

Mom has inadvertantly discovered how to calm down a pair of hyperactive dogs. A friend of hers brought over a bunch of boxes of spaghetti and stuff that were overflow from a meal delivery thing. We're not entirely sure why he does this, but that's alright. Well, this time there was a salad with Italian dressing in the boxes and in most of the boxes the two things mixed creating a truely bizzare food. We put it in a bucket in the fridge for the dogs. Now I want to make it clear that there was a lot of overflow and most of it was italian dressingy spahetti. Mom was cleaningout the fridge this morning and dumped most of the Italian dressingy sphagetti into the dogs' bowls. There was enough that they didn't even eat all of the dogfood that it had touched (usually when we put people food in their bowls they eat all of the dogfood in the bowl too.) After a mad dash for the door because of the sudden and unexpected bladder and colin pressure, they have just been sleeping all day. We gave them dog treats earlier and padfoot ate his own and didn't try to get Shep's which was sitting between shep's paws. I took it and dangled it in the air above Shep's head and he sat up on his haunches and wrapped his paws around my hand. Usually he dances around on his hind legs. (This is the one trick that he does better than Padfoot. Pad's back legs aren't really strong enough to hold his whole body weight, so shep likes to show off his one good trick.) (Remember while weight increases with the cube of linear dimensions, strength (muscular crossection) increases with the square of the same dimensions, so pound for pound shep is a lot stronger than padfoot. Doesn't mean it is a fair fight. Shep is a meaner fighter, that's what makes it a fair fight when they tussel. (As padfoot has gotten older, playfighting has become more and more often Shep's idea.)