Jane: Desired by the People at Her School and Work
Here is a list of reasons that I love my dog:
1) She can crawl like a fire dog, despite being a mutt with traces of every breed known to God except for dalmation.
2) She knows all sorts of unusual commands, like "downstairs," "off-the-bed!," and "fuck off." She is also not unwilling to cock her head like a dog-treat-box-model dog when she hears a word that she likes, like "Shiloh" (her cousin dog) or "park."
3) She is Oscar to Lou's Felix, or Felix to Lou's Oscar, depending on which one of those guys was the mellow goofy one. That's the one she is.
4) Her name fits perfectly into the "Jo-o-oy - and pain/Lou Dog - and Jane" song.
5) She sighs when she settles in for a nap, and her whole body deflates. She sounds like an old man unbuttoning his pants after overeating at Thanksgiving.
6) She is very good at imploring. She does that thing where she keeps her head level, but looks up at you, which shows the whites underneath her irises a little bit and makes her look like a freakin angel.
7) She has an attention span that is better than most 8-year-olds' in the public school system these days.
8) She has absolutely no set schedule at all - she can go to sleep or get up at any hour - except for the second (or fifth) wind that she always gets at midnight.
9) When we go to the woods, she likes to run up ahead on the path and hide behind logs until Lou comes trotting by, then she jumps on his head.
10) When playing ball, occasionally this thing will happen where one side of her nose will get all scrunched and puffed up. It's the part of her skin that has whiskers growing out of it. I don't have any idea what it means.
11) She is bow-legged like a bulldog.
12) When she needs to, she can entertain herself by throwing a ball into the air and then running after it, often down the stairs.
13) She understands pointing. Maybe most dogs can, but I'm content to assume that this just makes her a genius.
14) She loves to lay down in small creeks or snow, and loves to wade through larger bodies of water, but regards baths as torture.
15) Her body is about 1/4 scruff.
16) You cannot knock this dog over. When I tried to teach her to roll over, it was a wrestling match that I lost. It was like trying to tip over a Weeble, or a helicopter. You could get her shoulder on the floor, but the back feet stayed firmly planted.
17) Her nose has two very faint little brown stripes running down the middle of it, between her nostrils.
18) She is reigning house champion of staring contests.
Here is a list of reasons that I love my dog:
1) She can crawl like a fire dog, despite being a mutt with traces of every breed known to God except for dalmation.
2) She knows all sorts of unusual commands, like "downstairs," "off-the-bed!," and "fuck off." She is also not unwilling to cock her head like a dog-treat-box-model dog when she hears a word that she likes, like "Shiloh" (her cousin dog) or "park."
3) She is Oscar to Lou's Felix, or Felix to Lou's Oscar, depending on which one of those guys was the mellow goofy one. That's the one she is.
4) Her name fits perfectly into the "Jo-o-oy - and pain/Lou Dog - and Jane" song.
5) She sighs when she settles in for a nap, and her whole body deflates. She sounds like an old man unbuttoning his pants after overeating at Thanksgiving.
6) She is very good at imploring. She does that thing where she keeps her head level, but looks up at you, which shows the whites underneath her irises a little bit and makes her look like a freakin angel.
7) She has an attention span that is better than most 8-year-olds' in the public school system these days.
8) She has absolutely no set schedule at all - she can go to sleep or get up at any hour - except for the second (or fifth) wind that she always gets at midnight.
9) When we go to the woods, she likes to run up ahead on the path and hide behind logs until Lou comes trotting by, then she jumps on his head.
10) When playing ball, occasionally this thing will happen where one side of her nose will get all scrunched and puffed up. It's the part of her skin that has whiskers growing out of it. I don't have any idea what it means.
11) She is bow-legged like a bulldog.
12) When she needs to, she can entertain herself by throwing a ball into the air and then running after it, often down the stairs.
13) She understands pointing. Maybe most dogs can, but I'm content to assume that this just makes her a genius.
14) She loves to lay down in small creeks or snow, and loves to wade through larger bodies of water, but regards baths as torture.
15) Her body is about 1/4 scruff.
16) You cannot knock this dog over. When I tried to teach her to roll over, it was a wrestling match that I lost. It was like trying to tip over a Weeble, or a helicopter. You could get her shoulder on the floor, but the back feet stayed firmly planted.
17) Her nose has two very faint little brown stripes running down the middle of it, between her nostrils.
18) She is reigning house champion of staring contests.
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