May 14
Doggie Day
The dogs are celebrating a birthday today. They spent the day on their favorite chair, which is to say, my favorite chair.
The cocker spaniel is really a year older today. He’s now 6, and still acts like a mischievous puppy who’s more than a little too smart for his own good. In fact, he waits for just the right moment, then goes into action.
The golden retriever mix — a Heinz 57 — is being declared 8 today, but since I adopted her from a shelter, there’s no way to know when her birthday really is. Since I adopted her years ago, she has really come out of her shell and has a great personality. She even mothers the cocker spaniel, and he rarely complains.
The younger “kid” is starting to have a few gray hairs around his muzzle and eyes. That always bothers me, because I don’t like to think about the dogs getting older. The older one shows no such signs of age, and that doesn’t bother me at all.
I bought them their yearly birthday treat of mini-cupcakes, which they love, but I’m not having any. (Damn diet.) They’ll somehow have to suffer through my share over the next few days. I think they’ll manage.
In fact, when I gave them their first cupcakes, I don’t think they even tasted them. They almost swallowed them whole. I advised them about the importance of actually chewing their food appropriately, since I didn’t want the added chore of cleaning up an unexpected mess, and their second cupcake went down a whole half-second slower.
What’s that they say about teaching new tricks to old dogs?
May 14th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
My Heinz 57 adopted shelter-doggie will eat anything, as long as she thinks Cliff and I are eating it. She’ll beg for animal crackers when Cliff is eating them, but don’t try tossing her one if nobody else is indulging. She isn’t even interested then.