Category: pets

I love my dogs. Really. They’re awesome.

I love my dogs for many reasons. What I love most about them, though, is how much joy they bring into our lives. They are quite entertaining. No matter how badly my day is going, or how crappy I feel, my dogs always make me smile.

I’ve snapped a few pictures over the last few days. Let’s see if they make you smile, too.

HINT: if you click on each picture, you’ll get a bigger view.

Too bad you can’t hear them growling. Meg has always been a growler. That’s how she communicates. Belle has learned how to communicate right back.

Belle “pushes Meg’s buttons” by spearing her with her nose, nipping at her ears, belly, and butt until Meg gets tired of it and gives chase.

Belle is very fast.

She’s also very agile. Look closely and you’ll see that Belle is completely airborne in this shot.

Here it appears Meg got a mouthful of something distasteful.

The expressions on their faces just crack me up.

Especially when I call their names. They always stop and give me this look. The one that says, “What? We’re just playing.”

It really is a shame you can’t hear them growling. Perhaps one day I’ll get it on video.

So… did you smile, too?

My dogs love the snow. Which is awesome, because I love the snow, too. As an adult, snow can be boring. Unless you have two hairy toddlers like me.

I REALLY enjoy watching these two play together. They are quite entertaining. Belle always give Meg a run for her money, that’s for sure. But Meg does her best to keep up. She does a pretty good job of it, too.

You know she’s going fast when her ears are flying like this. My crazy Meg loves to run. She’s not nearly as spry as she used to be. She is almost 10 after all. But she still loves to run.

Speaking of running… Belle loves to run, too. I can’t imagine not having a fenced-in yard for these two to cavort in.

It really is cute seeing them play in the snow. Just before they come in, they usually stop to munch on some of the cold white stuff. Then, after they come in, I have to pick the ice balls out of their feet. I used Paw Guard to help prevent that, but it doesn’t work nearly as well as I’d hoped. So every time they come inside, I have to pick the snowballs out of their feet. Which they promptly eat. It’s like a game for them. And it makes me laugh.

That’s one of the reasons I love my dogs so much. They keep me laughing.

Now, if only I didn’t have to work, we could play outside all day. Alas, work calls. So I’d better get to it. Soon. Perhaps one more quick romp in the snow is in order first.

The return to reality after a vacation, however brief, is never fun. But today is different. Today it’s snowing!

Right now, it’s snowing pretty hard. And my hairy toddlers are loving it.

Meg may not look happy here, but she is. Trust me. My dogs LOVE the snow.

Belle’s loving it, too. It’s snowing so hard, the birds don’t notice Belle hiding under a nearby tree watching them.

It’s snowing too hard to get really good pictures, so I’ll have to take a break from work later, after it stops, to catch my hairy toddlers in action.