Mister Bojangles has magic tricks up his sleeve

Chris got some new shoes for Christmas. They are nice casual shoes to wear outside of work. Last week, he placed his new shoes side by side on top of a trunk in our guest bedroom. The next day, one of the shoes went missing. Da da daaaaaaaaaa. So we looked around the bed to see if it fell off the trunk-no. We look everywhere in the guest bedroom-wasn't there either. We then searched all our bedrooms and the entire house-nope. We looked under couches, chairs, we looked in the dirty laundry. We really searched every place it could be including the back yard. Sometimes socks end up out there mysteriously. Bo has a way of sneaking them out thru the doggie door. We scoured the entire yard. No shoe anywhere. It wasn't until we searched everywhere high and low that we come to the conclusion that the missing shoe must have been taken by Bojangles back behind our fence. He has a favorite place he runs to that goes back beyond our fence line. Neither of us can get back there. Chris was getting sad about his shoe so one morning, I decided to try and get back behind there. I realize I can't make it because of these prickly rose bush thorns that hurt when I try to squeeze by them. After our last ditch effort to locate this shoe in our home's black hole, Chris gets angry. His shoe has been missing for several days now. He gets his other shoe, scolds Bojangles so he knows what he is in trouble for and leaves for work. I look at Bo and just ask him nicely to please bring back the shoe.

After returning home from work that evening, what do we see in the middle of the living room floor............ the shoe!!!! A little dirtier from the last time we saw it but it is back in the house. We praised our little Houdini that night. And we keep our shoes in the closet from now on!!!
The shoes....
Where the kidnapping took place...
The alley behind our neighbors yard with prickly bushes halfway down....