The dog's OUT!

Last Wednesday, I took Rowdy with me to an Auction.  He of course had a good time jumping up an anybody who would give him attention.  For a while, I had picked him up and held him under one arm, while they were selling a couple of items that I was interested in.  Someone hollered out "It's the dog's bid!"  With that, the auctioneer announced, "NO, the dog's out.  I've got the bid over here!"  as he pointed to another guy and everybody laughed.