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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 ❤ 
Monday’s News
u reblogged thefluffingtonpost:
Local Shiba Knows About the Store-Brand Treats
An area Shiba Inu has discovered his regular Purina dog treats have been replaced with the generic store brand — and he’s not happy about it.
Witnesses say the pup started getting suspicious when the normally delicious little morsels began tasting like particle board. And he would know, since he chews on the bookshelves every damn day.
Via Sir Miles.
5.10.12 The shoes have it!
Whenever I am getting ready to go out, Sofie throws herself on my feet and has a little tantrum. “Please mommy, don’t leave me, what am I going to do if you put your shoes on, that means you are going somewhere, me me me me me.” I find it interesting how she knows the difference between when I am getting dressed but staying home vs when I am getting dressed to go out. Now of course, that does involve shoes, which I don’t like to wear and avoid as much as possible. Maybe the shoes are the difference? She really goes crazy when I go to my business clothes closet, then she figures I am going to be gone for more than a minute, She has even taken to stealing one shoe so that I can never leave her. Silly dog, she doesn’t know that we humans tend to have more than one pair of shoes.
Just another dogdaz morning at the zoo ❤
5.8.12 Whose got your back?
I am not sure why but my dogs seem to sleep like bookends a great deal of the time. Do we animals sleep with our back to our best friend because that is safe? This way you know your back is protected and that your best buddy will see things coming from one way and you will see them from the other? I just find it interesting because that is how I sleep as a human. I always turn out with my back to the center of the bed. Otherwise, it feels to vulnerable. I have tried to turn with my back to the outside but something about that just does not feel safe. A Travelodge survey found that 50% of British couples prefer sleeping back-to-back, either not touching (27%) or touching (23%). When I started looking into this for the blog, I found a ton of hits about dogs sleeping on their backs, but I only found one (http://dogs.lovetoknow.com/wiki/Dog_Sleep) that talked about back-to-back behavior. That blog talked about it being bonding behavior as well as safety. Since I do not sleep with my dogs in the bed, I wonder how people and dogs that do sleep together are positioned. Does your dog have your back?
Just another dogdaz morning at the zoo ❤
