Decorating.

Let’s talk about decorating today.  Humans decorate with their own personal style – and often like to surround themselves with things that are important to them – souvenirs from a place they visited, photos of family and friends (including us canine kids), art, and just general “decorations.”  And we canines – at least in our house – like to do the same.  But we decorate with toys.  And bones.

In our house we have a container that holds all of our toys and bones.  And every time my human vacuums – which has been quite often since Paxton began this “coat blowing” phase – she picks up all of our toys and bones, and puts them away.  And no sooner than she is done – in fact, often before she finishes vacuuming, I have removed most of them.  Can she NOT UNDERSTAND that this is MY decorating style?  Bones.  Everywhere.  So that our dining room looks like something out of an archeological dig site.  I LIKE this LOOK.  Yes, I DO agree that it CAN be a BIT dangerous as our human has more than once almost twisted an ankle on a bone that matches the color of the carpet.  But she just needs to be more careful.

And speaking of toys – I quite love it when my human has done some traveling – as she usually returns with a “gift” for each of us.  That’s just because she is feeling guilty.  We are FINE with our dogsitter – but we still GLADLY accept the gifts.  And our human is careful to get each of us the SAME toy.  It a “fairness” thing.  But every time, I ALWAYS think that Frodo or Pax has the better toy.  So I must have THEIR toy.  I will lie and stare at them – and sometimes even give out a little wimper – just for effect.  It works 99% of the time – they just give up their toy – and then they go and take the one I have abandoned.  OK.  I confess I CAN be a bit of a brat at times.  But they still love me.  Who doesn’t?

Gotta go.  My human just finished vacuuming.  I have decorating to do.

© 2014 Linda Wozniak