Buud And Me

Our dogs make us laugh!

Who ate the ice cream?

Well, it wasn’t me! I didn’t eat all the ice cream right out of the carton!

Safe in Paw Paw’s arms

Maw Maw comes chasing Buud into the bedroom scolding him all the way. Buud jumps in bed with me and scoots up against my side, sliding his head under my hand. He lifts his head with my hand on top, looks at Maw Maw, and with his eyes says, “Take it up with Paw Paw”.

They listen well.

Paw Paw: Maw Maw, don’t you think you should close the door so the pups don’t get out?

Maw Maw: Why, I told them to stay.

Precious has a better way.

Buud does his tricks for treats. Precious thinks the tricks are unnecessary so she just climbs on my lap and takes the treats.

Precious got the better of Buud.

Yesterday morning both Precious and Buud were on the bed with me. Buud was in his prime spot between my legs and Precious took up her usual, second-rate position on the bottom of the bed next to me. Buud is Alpha and won’t let her near me in the bed.

Maw Maw came in and asked, “Who wants to go outside?” Precious, with great enthusiasm, jumped up in response, and ran to the edge of the bed which caused Buud to spring to his feet and leap to the floor. Well, guess who didn’t jump off the bed. Precious stopped just short of the edge, turned around and took over Buud’s position between my legs.

I think I saw her smile.

Bad water

Sometimes, in the heat of summer, water evaporates from the swimming pool and we have to add some. When turned on, the water squirts from a pipe imbedded in the pool deck and makes a constant splash when it hits the surface of the pool. Well this drives the pups crazy. It actually drives Buud crazy and he passes crazy along to Precious. There must be something bad about this, so Buud and Precious go into their “Protect the Family” mode.

Buud is afraid of the water so he stands behind Precious and barks her on. Precious, our brave child, attacks the water while Buud barks. She bites the stream and tries to pull it out of the pool so it won’t hurt us. Within a minute the deck is all wet from her brave attack and Buud, who won’t go near the evil water, is all wet.

Buud runs to me to let me know that I’m safe and jumps to my lap to explain. Now I’m all wet. He jumps down and runs to where Precious is still at war with the stream of water, barks some more, wets his feet some more and runs back to my lap for an update.

So as not to disturb the neighbors with the barking, Maw Maw turns off the water and Buud one final time leaps to my lap, wet feet and all, to receive his praise for saving our family.

The neighborhood terrors

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