for the cat in your life that just won’t stop eating your dimes.
5.19.12 Fitting in
Sofie is a little dog among bigger dogs (Lulu and her friend Mojo). She is blond, they are black. She is whiney, they are quiet (well, Mo does bark a lot). She is furry, they are short hair.
3 dogs and a frisbee
The labbies have this incredible bite, Sofie is lucky if she can find enough tooth grip to pull a robe. She tires 1/2 way through our walk and starts to pant, Lulu just runs on. But Sofie does not know that she is different, so she just plays like she is a big dog. I guess ‘fitting in’ is a human concept. The dogs don’t really get caught up in it. Lucky them. Once again a lesson that humans can learn from their dogs.
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤ 
5.18.12 How Nine Sees It
As I was taking a picture of Stella, Nine, the troublemaker, jumped in front of the camera. Of course he did, he is Nine! Hear him Roar! This made me think about life from the animals view. For one thing, they are almost always looking up at us humans, unless they have been able to climb up on something and then they do that vulture thing and stare down at you. I’ve read varying opinions on whether animals see color, not that it matters, but sometimes I do wonder what they are visually attracted to. I don’t think their eyes are the most important sense for them. I learned that when Squash, the dog, lost his sight. They rely a lot on smell and hearing. I do wonder sometimes if cats see ghosts, because I can walk into the room and a bunch of them will be staring at something that I just can not see. I don’t find the dogs doing that kind of thing, but they do other weird things like hear or smell a fox 3 blocks away through the walls of the house. Often I get down on the floor with the animals and look at the world from their vantage point. Now I know that my eye sight is different. I definitely have a range of color, and my eyes are in a different place on my head, but I try to get a feel from their side. It also helps me find lost toys, bones, and miscellaneous pieces of crumbled paper that the cats play with.
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
5.17.12 lulu the knee begger
Louise is a knee begger. She is the perfect height to put her head on your knee when you are sitting down. She actually doesn’t do it for food when you are sitting at the table, she does it for my attention when I am working or watching TV. Then she moves from head on leg, to paws on leg. She actually likes to sit up on her hind quarters and have her paws against me. This is silly behavior, and I am kind of sorry I never stopped it when she was little, but I found it cute. I don’t speak dog very well, so I don’t always understand what it is she wants (other than attention). 
How do you ignore an adorable dog like Lulu, when she looks at you with those brown eyes, places her paw on your knee and says…. nothing (she is not a big talker). I do love this dog. She is funny and silly and very serious all at the same time. Well, I do not think there is much you can do about a dog that is a knee begger, or let me rephrase that, there is not much I am going to do. Because, I love Lulu’s knee begging, it makes me smile.
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
5.16.12 Catdogs Need To Stay Safe
I can not seem to get out the door these days without my 3rd dog, Nine the kitten, trying to come along. I know that I told you in the past that I do not allow any of the cats outside. That is just the way it is. But it seems that I am going to have to get him a harness and walk him along with Louise and Sofie because he is just not taking ‘No’ for an answer. The trouble with that is we usually walk in the morning with Lulu’s boyfriend, Mojo, and he would eat Nine in one bite. One day Mo saw the cats through the glass and almost broke down my door. Not sure I want to test that out.
“Oh well, I guess you will just have to stay inside, Lil’ Mr. Nine. Leave the outside world for the big dogs. Little Catdogs need to stay where it is safe.”
Just another CatDogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
5.15.12 My Water Bottle!
Lulu loves water bottles. You know the kind that you buy spring water in that make that really crunchy noise when you smash them. I take the caps off when I am finished, so that no one swallows small parts (I try to drink about 4 bottles a day), and give the bottle to Lulu so she can run around with it and go, “crunch crunch crunch crunch.” She loves that.
Sofie makes like she wants the bottle but I have actually never seen her play with one. She was teasing Lulu though yesterday, “Come on, Lu, I want the bottle, give me the bottle, I’m going to take it, yes I am.”
When Sofie enlisted Mojo Raising to help with the bottle rescue all levels of doggie mayhem ensued. It was a fun afternoon.
It still amazes me how there can be 40 million toys in the yard, but every dog wants the one that the other dog has.
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
