Dog Tales

I hadn't finished posting about our trip to Kansas , but I wanted to share some funny stories from today about our dogs.

Our guest room is our dogs' favorite room in the house. If I leave the door open, they'll go in there and take a nap together on the bed. Or wrestle on the bed together. Since that room will soon be the baby's room, we usually don't let the dogs in there anymore. Well, this morning I left the door open, and then I heard Padme growling. She's standing in the doorway growling into the room. She starts barking at something in there. My first thought that there's a mouse possibly...and then my imagination kicks in and I wonder if someone is in our house. So I go down the hall to investigate wanting Newman to come with me. Newman is just sitting at the end of the hallway wagging his tail. He's either too scared to go or hoping someone is here to play with him. So I have to go into the room by myself because both Newman and Padme are frozen in fear. That's when I realize that Padme is looking at this lion chair we bought for the baby. The back of the chair is a lion's back and head. The chair was on the floor on the other side of the bed. The top of the lion's mane was peaking up over the bed. I sigh in relief and walk over to it hoping this would calm her down. It didn't. I then show her that's it's nothing bad. She creeps in there still growling and finally comes over and sniffs the toy. The rest of the morning she would keep stalking into the baby's room and look suspiciously at the lion, growling silently. Apparently, she doesn't like it. I am reminded again how much of a watch dog she is and how much of a scaredy cat Newman is.

Then this afternoon, some dog next door is barking so loud it gets the dogs barking inside the house. I finally let them outside and they continue barking loud outside and will not be quiet. I finally go out there to see what has gotten them riled up. Newman's dog friend Duke who had moved away was back visiting next door. Newman and Duke were running up and down the fence barking with Padme barking at them - just like old times. Except it lasted for close to an hour. I thought it was funny that it was like Duke called for Newman to come out and play and then they "talked" back and forth for a long time. Who says dogs don't communicate or remember???