dogs

this weekend aside from visiting with my 70 something grandparents and spending quality time with them. I have also spent a fair amount of time with 2 very opinionated boston terriers.

they have the following comments:
"Why are you currently not petting me"(Dog 1)
"PET ME PET ME PET ME PET ME" (Dog 2)
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"Now now now NOW NOW ME PET, MUST KISS YOU!!!!!!!" (Dog 2)

"Give me a cookie, I did something, I am cute and I didn't run away, you are happy you must now feed me a cookie"(Dog 1)
"COOKIE!!!!!!" (Dog 2 concentrates as she sits there patiently waiting, never demanding anything that magically comes from the cupboard- she just sits and looks cute meanwhile all you see in her eyes is ...i love you i must kiss you soon please give me a cookie!)

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"OHH PLAY, BALL BALL BALL BALL BALL BALL, RUN, RUN, RUN" (Dog 2)
"Take the ball from that simple minded dog right out of her mouth and run really fast, like all those times I ran away from this place fast...." (Dog1)
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"sleepy time, sleepy time, sleepy time" (Dog 2 looks at you and her little dog body with barely enough energy as she walks herself to her bed before going to sleep, this walk also usually means the COOKIE from earlier is still not eaten and she will take it with her to sleep and bury it in her bed linens"
yawn...one eye brow raise "move me if you want me to sleep somewhere besides the couch cushion you want to sit on"(dog 1)
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As you can tell dog 1, and dog 2 have very different personalities.
dog 1, although older, wiser, and a bit pickier, is not as bitchy as I make her out to be. But she is more opinionated about things, she never barks r growls out of this bitciness, and she adores little dog 2. Daily little dog 2, cleans dog 1's head and face. Dog 1, loves people and waggs her little bottom when they visit but with just less energy as Dog 2. Dog 1 is 2 years older. Dog 1 loves to go outside, dog 2 loves to be snuggled on the couch and never go outside. Both dogs love to eat people food, canned dog food, only chicken flavor, dog 2 will eat chruchy, dog one, will only eat them by taking a mouthful to where you sit in the house and spit them out, laydown next to you and eat them like popcorn. I would easily have either dog full time in my life. even as a girl who prefers big dogs. Aside from the constant grunting of little dog 2, and the odd lay on floor and drag myself by my front paws habit of dog 1, i adore them and they have so much to say. Some little dogs just do not seem as talkative.
for instance this morning conversation is as follows:
(i wake up, it is 7:30, obviously the dogs do not wake up until 9)
dog 1: (sleeping at my feet on the couch) "oh you are serious about this waking up thing..hmm.. give me 10 min, soon i will be awake, and full of energy to run around but YOU moved me at 2 am from the middle of the couch, and i need sometime to decide if i can ignore that (pause) that belly rub sure feels good....ok i am awake..."
you walk to the laundry room, open the half shut door and say "ohh dog 2, time to get up sleepy head"
dog 2:(really tired, squints, still asleep faithfully pushes open her own cage door) Ok, i am up, i love you lets snuggle. (follows you to anywhere you decide it is time to go)
dog 1: (now awake and sitting by the door)
you: outside!!!
only dog 1 responds, in fact you don't even think dog 2 has a bladder.

dog 1: prances back to the glass door when finished with outside activities, comes inside and dances and acts super cute.
dog 2: laying on couch sleeping again.

you: (like the trained monkey you are, go get dog 1 a cookie) "COOKIES!!!"

dog 1: "COOKIE COOKIE COOKIES COOKIE"
dog 2 (still sleeping on couch)

you break a cookie in half.
you give dog 1 a 1/2 cookie at the cabinet, dog 2 you bring the other half of cookie to

dog 1:)REALLY ANNOYED, STARING AT YOU LIKE YOU KILLED SOMETHIG, makes a gruf sound. bites the half cookie in front of her and drops it, not eating one crumb. "you did not give me a full size cookie, you will now go get me a full size cookie or i will stare at you and continue to do this dance step infront of this pitiful excuse of a cookie"
dog 2(has half cookie tucked under her chin content as can be"

you: go back to the cabinet to retrieve a full size cookie for each. otherwise the backfire of gas of upsetting dog 1 could be deadly. And she knows where you sleep.