Finally my dawgs....

I have held off about my dogs. But I can no longer hold back.

My husband & I find the best part of our days is the time when we are in bed with our dogs reading before we fall asleep. "Seepy Nigh Nigh" is what we say. Sincerely all 3 of the dogs run to do this. One burrows under the sheets to snuggle. One cuddles in between Mike and I ever elongating himself to get as much real estate as possible. Those are my boys...Bo & Luke.

I did say 3 dogs. Yes. Then there is the third Duke Dawg in our household. Daisy. 3 year old Jack Russel terrier. All 12 pounds of her runs the household. Now I am aware that we are a fairly sedantary group and the JRT's are the most energetic dogs....this becomes painfully obvious as we Seepy Nigh Nigh. Daisy brings to the bed whatever toy she can find to pass the time. As we will NOT allow her to "inquire" towards the boys' pee pees, she brings her doughnut. I have grown tedious of repainting the hallway wall as the paint from the doughnut as I threw it. So at one point....I dropped the toy through the rungs of our wrought Iron bed. Daisy was aghast. Then she squat to look against the wall to see it. We watched as she observed the situation, evaluated where the toy could be, and then how to get it. First time was 20 minutes until she got off of the bed, crawled under the bed & retrieved the doughnut. Second time just a few minutes less. We were laughing....Bo licked himself, Luke avoided eye contact (he figures if he looks at us he has to move out of our way) and Daisy....was weighing and measuring the doughnut situation.

The other night, we dropped the doughnut....and Daisy took a setp back and sat. She looked to her left, cocked her head....looked to the right, cocked her head...sniffed both sides and they ran off to the left side of the bed. What she had discerned was that the toy had been dropped in the middle of the bed, YET fell on one side or the other. We laughed. Daisy retrieved the toy & dropped it for another attempt. We dropped it....she evaluated, & went to the right side of the bed. It scares me that my dog has the cognitive capacity to discern the "right" side of the bed to look for her toy. I worry that she will take this knowledge and flush the toilet when I am in the shower....I wouldn't put it past the little bitch.

Be great to you.
H