Random canine thoughts

[Lady's Human]

Besides having an OCD dog, I'm not sure.

She's better than a clock with certain things, and everything MUST be in the right place.

Speaking of which, Axel, someone needs her 730 PM out. It's hard to type with a dog on your shoulder.

[Lady's Human]

As time goes on, I'm beginning to see HOW rough Angel's time was before she came home.

I was working on the house today (long story) and had to go out through the basement to take her out. She's never been through that way before. When I took her out, she was absolutely trembling in fear for some odd reason. She kept trembling until we went back in.

I often wonder what shelter dogs have been through, and what goes through their minds at times.

[Karen]

Aww, how sad! It's okay, Angel pup! No demons live in that basement!

[Lady's Human]

Well this is silly.

As some of you might have noticed, here in the northeast corner of the US it's been a little on the chilly side and a little on the snowy side.

Angel's normal morning routine is AOH gets up at 5AM to take her for her morning out. For whatever reason, no alarm clocks went off, and the pup stayed on the couch curled up under two blankets all night. When we finally did get up, the boy went out to the couch and I told him to take her out for her morning piddle break. Angel looked at me with a face that said "seriously, dude? You want me to abandon a warm couch with a scritching boy to go out in THAT? Ain't happening.


For those of you who haven't met her, yes, my dog WOULD call me dude.

[cassiesmom]

Awww, Angel pup! Can you go out quickly, and then hurry back inside? It snowed in Chicago overnight, just enough to provide a fresh coating - but now, 5:30ish AM, I can hear the rain (or maybe freezing rain?) falling on the metal roof vent. I don't blame you for not wanting to go outside in the cold. Maybe your young human will give you a few scritches when you come back inside, and you can get back on your blanket-nest. And I agree about the basement, no demons there. Your people will help you if you should ever need to go down there for some reason.

[Lady'sOtherHuman]

Every once in a while I see Angel carry two tennis balls in her mouth and wondered how she did it, now I know....

We pick up one tennis ball and carry it over to the other, we put the one we are carrying down next to the one already on the floor. We then procede to step on one so it doesn't move and pick up both at the same time by grabbing in the middle of two and pick them up.

( Yeah, she's just a dumb dog......)

[Karen]

Every once in a while I see Angel carry two tennis balls in her mouth and wondered how she did it, now I know....

We pick up one tennis ball and carry it over to the other, we put the one we are carrying down next to the one already on the floor. We then procede to step on one so it doesn't move and pick up both at the same time by grabbing in the middle of two and pick them up.

( Yeah, she's just a dumb dog......)

We once had someone complain to us that we were promoting dog abuse when we featured a Dog of the Day, Farley*, with three tennis balls in his mouth at once, when you and I know that for most dogs, Angel, any Retrievers of any sort - the more tennis balls the better!

*http://dogoftheday.com/archive/2000/April/14.html