Top 10 Favorite Things My Dog Does

Top 10 Favorite Things My Dog Does

What a pleasure to be able to share this great Top 10 compiled by the lovely Gina Stark.

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Her name is Paloma. It sounds refined, cultured…elegant, even. Well…she is anything but!  She’s a nut , rather than a mutt and you might  catch a measure of my deep love and affection for her in my list.

1) She doesn’t come when we call her. Really. It’s so darn spirited and independent of her;}

2) Rests her head on my lap as her signature way to beg…even when I’m standing!

3) Pulls things from impossible hard-to-reach counters and containers and wolfs them down, leaving a catastrophe to clean up. No, really, this is a good thing as it removes bread and all edibles from my home and keeps me svelte.

4) When we’re on a walk, and we encounter another dog and his “walker”, Paloma strides right up to the equally enthusiastically wagging dog, passes him and goes straight to the human for kisses and greetings. I love imagining the thought process in the other dog’s head after such a blatant public dismissal.

5) Walks with such a happy, bouncing gait that her ears spring and flap like a bird. We call her seagull ears.

6) I don’t usually speak of bodily functions, but this is a doggily function, so…She puts me in hysterics when I’m playing tug-o-war with her with a squeaky toy and she lets out a toot and instantly lets go of the toy, and whips around to look for who’s got another squeaky toy behind her!

7) She snaps her teeth at us when she wants something – which is often! I actually like this because she’s not barking and it sounds like alligator jaws gnashing.

This next one you’ll all appreciate – well, those of you on a laptop! Since I am able to ignore the teeth gnashing, she has recently taken to shoving my laptop lid down to close it in a huff…or better yet, she wedges her snout above my typing hands and pulls back on the lid, propelling it open and backwards and I can barely save it from launching off my lap! I know I’m supposed to get peeved, but I just laugh while clutching it protectively.

9) Spoons me in bed – albeit, bottoms up. Lordy.

10) She likes to sit on my lap on road trips. She is 62 pounds, mind you, and her claws dig fiercely into my thighs…but I hold her snug against me and ponder the yin and yang of dog love.