We LOVE you.....

So my human found more of “those” websites that tell you about your dog and your dog’s behaviors. These sites explained the things that we dogs do to tell you we love you. Some of them made complete sense to me – and I am a pro at them – like wagging my tail, sleeping with my human and smiling. But some traits - well let's see...

Another trait is to follow your human.  Frodo is the one who follows her around.  EVERYWHERE.  He waits outside the bathroom door for her.  He waits if she goes in the garage. He waits if she goes in a closet.  He HAS to be where she is. 

Another trait was leaning.  That one belongs to Paxton.  He leans on her.  ALL THE TIME.  They didn’t mention sitting on your feet.  Paxton does that WHILE he is leaning on her.  Such PERFECT behaviors for a 100 lb dog. 

Another trait that says we love you is to take care of you when you are feeling sick.  I’m SURE there ARE dogs who do this – but the nursing gene is not really strong in this household.  I mean Paxton would eat any tissues if my human had a cold, and I would jump on her if she was lying in bed.  We need to work on this one. 

Face licking is supposed to be another loving behavior.  My human doesn’t REALLY encourage this – because we are also good at licking our brothers.  And licking the floor.  And certain anatomical parts.    

Another trait that was kind of weird was "peeing in front of you."  It supposedly means  a dog respects you as a leader - and I guess that is a loving behavior?  Try to convince THAT to my human when we pee on the pumpkin, or the solar lights, or the statue of Rocky the dog, or the NEW bush she JUST planted...Or the BBQ.....I think my human would debate this one. That's the same site that said jumping on you is another loving behavior.  Now I AGREE with this - but my human - well, again it's one of those adorable loving gestures that is NOT encouraged.  Especially with Bucket Head. 

The last trait or behavior that is supposed to show that we love you is…errrrr…well I might as well just say what the article said.  It’s crotch sniffing.  Trust me.  My human would NOT consider that to be an acceptable, loving gesture.  We don’t even TRY that here.

So none of us exhibits ALL the loving traits, but each of us has our way of demonstrating that we DO adore our human.  The article neglected to mention jumping for joy when she comes home.  Or going through her legs.  Like Paxton does.  Rather dangerously.  Or staring at her lovingly.  OK, maybe that one doesn’t count- since we usually do it when she has food.   

But we DO love her very much and we are so glad we picked her.  I think we’ll keep her.  And we know, that even when we are bad….she loves us too! 

©  Linda Wozniak