What's your funniest story about Mazel and Tov? What about the new puppers?
Okay, so like, out of my Two, Mazel is the more playful and forward, while Tov is more subdued and reserved. I mean yeah, both like their butt scritches, but Mazel is a dingus and Tov her long suffering sister.
So, one of the first missions I went on with them once we cleared our training, I was attached to a convoy. We were crossing some mountains, and had just gone down one and were coming to a river crossing before we would go up the other.
Now, this part of the river was pretty shallow at this time of year. At its deepest, it would come up to my calves, and was pretty slow going. Easy to ford, and the girls wouldn't have any issue paddling across.
Yeah, Tov got to the edge of the water, looked as the nearly-still stream, and went Nope. She platted her furry butt down and would. Not. Budge.
Mazel, on the other hand, was having a blast. She was jumping about, barking, stirring up the water, and decided to have a duel with a river crab. She lost, but river crabs are assholes, so that was understandable.
No matter how much I cajoled her, Tov just wouldn't have it. So, to not lose any more time, I picked her up. One arm around her chest, the other under her butt, leaving her legs to dangle.
So, I started crossing, and she starts wiggling. I'm like, WTF? Then, I hear the others in the convoy start laughing.
Tov was swimming. In the air. Above the water.
With Mazel, I had been warned pretty early on that pork has a bad effect on her. She has no real trouble digesting it or anything, and she doesn't get sick, so its not serious.
She just gets lethal gas.
Tov does, too, but not nearly as bad as her sister.
(Mind you, 'serious' is a matter of perspective. They both can make your eyes water, but Mazel's will also straighten your nosehair).
Wellllllllll, I may have used her as a form of biological warfare.
So, on a different mission, but in the same mountain range, there was an issue of some Bad Dudes who were using the local cave system to smuggle and raid. Thing is, we couldn't track them: the caves were just too extensive, with lots of switchbacks and the like.
Sooooooo, I loaded up Mazel on some pork loin one night and sent her on in the next morning 😂
WHOOOOOOOOO boy, minutes later, the raiders come pelting out, gagging and crying. Literally dozens of hardasses are just STREAMING out and right into our arms. A few were crying, wondering just what cruel, vile bastard would send a dying dog carrying some sort of pestilence into their midst! And Mazel just trots out behind them, tongue lolling and grinning, and wagging her stupid fuckin' tail.
And each step she took, you could hear a loud if short *POOT!*.
Of course, as she poots closer, the rest of my crew scatter. Poor Mazel, she started trotting, then RUNNING, after the bastards, whining because why aren't her friends giving her pets!? All the while, she had what sounded like a machine gun going off from her backside 😆
About my Five? Well, Murcia had to be carried inside during a freak summer trash moving gully washer that blew through Neptunia. The dumbass wouldn't come in when called and just stayed flopped out on the deck.
Then again, that's what I get for giving her a name that means "lazy" or "slothful" lol
Morea gets scared of storms, and will try to hide anywhere she can. Mind you, "hide" just means stuffing her head into the smallest possible spot she can. We had to get rid of our decorative floor vases because she would stuff her head inside one, but get it stuck upon trying to get it out.
Mania is just Stupid. She'll just, do stupid fucking shit all the time. I literally can't list anything for her, she just is...yeah.
Mab, uh, is really attached to Julian. She's scared of storms as well, just not to the extent of Morea. But, at one point, she had real bad seperation anxiety in regards to Jules. One day, he had caught a nasty bug. Some sort of gastrointestinal thing. Poor guy was constantly throwing up and hitting the pot.
Well, obviously, he would shut the bathroom door. Mab didn't like that. At all. Papa is sick! Must go to Papa! Door in way? Not anymore! She litterally plowed through a solid oak door, not only snapping it in half, but also taking it clear off the frame. Literally scared the shit out of Jules 😂 I found the poor guy with his pants down and a bin on his lap. MeanWHILE, Mab is just lounging in front of him, back to him, "guarding" him while he was "vulnerable"!
Yes, she was very proud of herself.
...I just realized: out of all my dogs, Morphea is the only one who knows how to Dog.