Can you give us a quick rundown on your ouppies and their breeds? I lose track lol
yes!!!!! there are a lot of them but i am always happy to talk about them
the first dog i got was Noodle. Noodle is a four year-old Golden Retriever
he is the ultimate good boy but sometimes he wakes us up crying in the middle of the night and when you blearily walk downstairs to figure out why he's upset it turns out there's a single sock in the middle of the floor and he can't figure out how to walk past it
he likes to give hugs and also likes to convince people to hold his hands while he stares at them solemnly. his favorite trick is "kiss" where he bumps your face with his nose and he will offer it completely unprompted when he wants love.
he has some agility foundations and loves doing jumps/tunnels but he thinks every other obstacle is trying to kill him
skates by on his looks tbh but we love him very dearly
after Noodle came Boogaloo, aka Boo. she is a six year-old, off-brand, backyard bred Australian Shepherd. i got her off Facebook for free
Boo is freakishly verbal. sometimes Athena and i speak to each other in whole sentences and Boo deduces what we're saying and responds accordingly (like, "Can you put Boo away so we can go out?" and then she runs into her crate and waits for us to close it)
she believes that she caused 9/11 and feels very bad about it
she and Noodle are Besties Forever and their favorite game is when Boo jumps on him and chews on him while making mongoose noises
she's an incredible obedience dog with a killer heel and insane hind end awareness but she had to stop doing agility because she got so overexcited that she was literally going to hurt herself
she gets super hyped to take afternoon naps with me
then came PS5 the papillon. what can i say about PS5?
first of all, she is a tyrant. if she had thumbs we would all be in serious trouble. i have never met an animal so self-possessed. she tends to enchant everyone she meets and that's how she gets you to do her bidding. she had a fan club at my last workplace
PS5 is brilliant and obsessed with tiny squeaky tennis balls, but she incredibly stubborn and uninterested in cooperating with humans for basically any reason. so she does not do any sports right now lol
she steals things recreationally because she thinks our reaction is funny
when she is cross with us she stamps her little feet and says "wrrrrrrr!!!!!!!" until we figure out how to appease her
she came to us from a local oops litter and it's a good thing she happened to end up in a home with a professional dog trainer because she would have been an absolute menace in an average pet home
in conclusion, PS5 is a terrible little punk but we're obsessed with her
our most recent addition is Minion.
oh, Minion.
Minion is a 15 lb border collie/papillon cross whose parents did flyball and dock diving. she is simultaneously brilliant and incredibly stupid. she's a blast to train and picks up new behaviors quickly but she also thinks she can get inside the house by running underneath our porch and then she gets stuck and doesn't understand how to get out
she likes to follow me around and Stare at me like this O____O and lie her head in my lap when i sit on the couch
she and PS5 are best frenemies. Minion was a singleton puppy who has never fully grasped the idea that she is not the main character, and PS5 has never forgiven Minion for growing bigger than her
Minion is also obsessed with toys. her favorite thing in this entire world is squeaky rubber chickens. if she feels that you are unfairly ignoring her squeaky rubber chicken she may vigorously slap you with it until you acknowledge chimkin
her other hobbies include kind of looking like Scrat from Ice Age
honorable mention: Tortellini
after my last cat died i decided to cope with my feelings by volunteering at a cat shelter and predictably ended up coming home with a kitten because she was super chill and liked riding around in my sweatshirt while i worked
she is an absolute sweetheart who loves people and sometimes gets so excited about being pet that she drools
she is freakishly obsessed with dog food. i was clicker training her at one point and she was doing pretty well but now she crashes the party any time i use the clicker with one of the dogs
when she's not eating dog food, her favorite activity is slapping us until we let her crawl under the covers and then she sleeps under the blankets like a warm little lump
she loves bathtubs and belly rubs
and that's the whole crew!
