Yesterday Shiloh celebrated his first birthday. (And before I go any further, I need to say Happy Birthday, Dad! And Happy Birthday, Dad T, from last week! Yes, people are more important than dogs.) In order to mark this quite small celebration, I present Random Thoughts on My Dog.
- My dog is a miniature trash compactor. He licks and eats anything he can find, including the sleepy from his eye I dislodged and flicked to the floor this morning. Ew. Gross.
- In the same vein of “ew, grossness,” my dog is obsessed with licking himself. So much so that Jeremy and I googled it one night to make sure nothing was wrong. For the record, we do, in fact, believe nothing is wrong physically. Mentally, we’re not so sure.
- We think our dog is fairly stupid. Aside from the fact that he potties in the right location, he doesn’t seem to understand 1) that he’s not supposed to eat kleenex from the trash can and 2) that he’s supposed to roll over when we say roll over.
- The previous points are all made moot by the fact that I LOVE my dog completely. I am utterly charmed by the way he cuddles into his dog bed every evening and I can’t get enough of his incredibly soft white furry coat. He is a very sweet dog who clearly loves his pack (us) and is devoted to being by our sides.
- In a nutshell, all the grossness is worth it. We love Shiloh.
5 Comments
Sarah M Feb 18, 2010 12:32 PM
ha! These made me laugh out loud. Totally think all these thoughts myself, although, just be thankful yoru little lady isn’t small and still in diapers. Our dog Trey (now gone,but for the record, we DID actually like her) would eat all their dirty diapers if we accidentally left the bathroom door open, and smear the rotten mess all over the CARPET.
::shudders::
Sarah M
Kerri Feb 18, 2010 12:39 PM
Great minds think alike. I was just contemplating my next post, which will probably be “Obligatory puppy photo.” :)
The paper/Kleenex thing must just be an inherent dog thing; our dog does it, too, and I recall our dog that we had in childhood shredding Kleenex all.the.time.
And “roll over” is a pretty hard one. :) I’m sticking to being happy with “sit”, “lie down”, and “stay”!
tasha Feb 18, 2010 1:48 PM
aww dogs…man’s best friend….maybe that’s why we have the love hate relationship with our furry animals…
Rebecca Feb 18, 2010 3:48 PM
We have wondered if it’s a bit uncomfortable for him to roll over. At least it always looks kind of awkward when he does it–and my old dog Chloe, a Yorkie, did it with ease.
Another Random Thought: White dogs are like white cars. They show dirt very easily.
Kerri Feb 18, 2010 11:22 PM
Yorkies have very little to hoist over; hence, their ease?
Re: last Random Thought: another reason why we got a salt-and-pepper gray dog this time, as opposed to our previous white Westie.