May 22, 2012

Why is it the biggest dog wants to be a lap dog?  Harry at 8 months and almost 50 lbs, wants nothing better then to sit on your lap, and it doesn't matter what you are doing. Of course the most favored spot is just when you have poured your first cup of coffee, turn on The Nate Berkus Show and settle in with the paper. It now becomes a juggling act, the paper the hot coffee and one heavy dog, or did I mention there is always a couple of stuffies that have to be there also. It very seldom is a gentle front paws up then back paws, it is a full fledged running start, jump on the lap!  Harry does the same thing first thing in the morning when he has to go out.  You are sound asleep and then all of a sudden this dog launches himself at in bed, never the full body slam but as much of it that can possibly be without actually getting all fours up on the bed.  Such a huge change from Oliver, who just got up and slumped his way into the bedroom and stared at your back until you turned over, big kiss then slumped back to his bed.  HA HA fooled you!

We are finding out a lot of firsts with Harry, Being born in October and up north in Athabasca, he has never (we are guessing) seem a weed whacker or a lawn mower. The weed whacker is just a big game to him and wants to chase it, the lawn mower not so much, he must save his humans from it at all costs!  I can hardly wait for his first thunderstorm.  He has two stuffies that make actual animal sounds, or did,  the first time he grabbed them and hit the right spot, he dropped it like a hot potato and barked at it, from a safe distance of course.  He won't go near it again for hours, then it would start all over again,  I now know what the insides look like of quite a few of these things, and the stuffing goes everywhere.  But I would not change it for the world.  Harry makes me laugh and cry (too much like his big brother) and is just full of pure joy.  Rescued dogs are the best.