In July I read a post on the blog My Brown Newfies with this
title. Boy if you own a greyhound and you're ever feeling annoyed by the amount of hair your hound sheds or how much space they take up, skip on over to this blog and read about two of the most lovable Newfies in the blogosphere and rejoice that your dogs don't eat as much as these guys do! The post was very funny and
started me thinking about the sounds that make my dogs come running. At the end of the post she invited us to
share so I thought, I will. With all of
you!
So here are the top 5 sounds that make my dogs come running
to investigate (In no particular order):
1. My Closet
Door-They usually hear this sound in the morning and that is how they know for
sure I have
2. My Shower Curtain-I work at home. So it isn’t always of paramount importance
that I look pretty or smell nice.
Sometimes I don’t shower for a day or two if I’m feeling very lazy. But I always shower before leaving the
house. Being the inveterate gamblers
that Blue and Bettina are, they come running as soon as they hear the shower
curtain open on the good chance it means I’ll be leaving the house. I am under constant surveillance from that
moment until they have finally determined that, yes I am leaving and I am
taking them or no, I’m not leaving after all and I look pretty well ensconced
on that couch.
3. Keys-I would suspect this one is on everyone’s list. For the obvious reason.
4. Fridge Door-Also probably on everyone’s
list. For those same obvious
reasons. For my kids it could mean
string cheese, or yogurt, or a marrow bone, or a frozen peanut butter bone, or ….
5. The Child Gate Guarding the Entrance to the
Basement-This can often times mean that I’m going downstairs to pick out one of
their fancy collars, or some other accessory of torture in which to dress them
up. Why would they care about that? Because the payoff for accepting this
treatment is that we are going out and they are likely to see other people,
other greyhounds, or both. At the very
least it means I have gone out of their sight and that is never
acceptable. They generally stand at the
top of the stairs behind the gate and whine.
If I leave the gate unhooked, Bettina will stick her head through the
gap and stare down into the abyss until it belches me back up.
My kids also get pretty excited about any visitor at the door, the noise the dump trucks make when they pass the house and any move I might make in the vicinity of their food bowls. What makes your kids come running?
