2/4/2012 Squeak-a

I don't know how many of you have animals gracing your house.  Every one I have ever had seems to give me joy but it is each of their personalities that always has me smiling and wondering how each could be so different.

Currently, I have 2 dogs.  These two dogs are roughly the same age (less than a year apart).One is a Bischon and the other is a Cockapoo.  They are both girls but one is black and one is white.  A perfect opposite of each other.

Dutchess, the Bischon, is what I would consider a grump of a dog.  She sleeps all the time.  Cuddles in the worst places, and will growl at you if you try to move her.  Although she is the oldest, she is the smallest, but their sizes are quite similar.  She is a licker of every part of your body she can reach.  But mainly, she is my lap dog and my 3 AM alarm clock reminding me that someone has come home in the complex.

Jocee, the Cockapoo is best described as a toddler.  Yes she is a cuddler and a major licker, like her sister, she is also clumsy and tends to wake up way to early in the morning for my tastes.  (Which is saying something since I am usually up at 5AM)  But it is her vibrancy of life that has me smiling right now.  She finds everything interesting.  She chews every pencil and pen in the house she can find and will eat every kind of food she can get her nose on.  And don't you dare leave her at home or there will be a mess to clean up when you get back.

But it is the little tennis balls that I just love to see her with.  She will pick them up, throw them over her head, and then fetch them.  She will bring them to you and drop them at your feet just waiting for you to throw them for her to go find.  But it is the new balls she loves the most.  She will squeak that ball until she pops it, which never takes long.  "Squeak-a, squeak-a!"  It leaves me smiling for more.  I just wish she would love the larger balls that she couldn't pop.  This is getting to be an expensive joy in both our lives.  Sounds like she lost the ball under the couch again.  I better go help her.

Squeak-a!

Have that perfect cup for me.