Dogs can tell you what the oldest profession is - it's begging . The uninitiated and the weak fall victim to the oldest trick in the book. Tradition has won out once again. The quick, the hopeful, and the stupid always make some sort of play for the dishes left unattended. A canine is always caught mere inches from a cranberry sauce smear or a gray spill.
Nothing ever comes of it, but still they press on.
The dismantling of the carcass Joy abounds when the carcass is dismantled for storage. Bits of skin, bits too dry, bits too odd, bits, bits, glorious bits. Next morning, Papa is having his traditional breakfast of turkey sandwiches. The bits return. And then they wait.