Canine Culture

Make no bones about it, dogs are great. They are loyal, forgiving beyond belief, protective, loving, funny, and warm hearted. All the features we would want in a person. I like to think of a dog as a kind of human without an ego. Human, that is, until they start acting like a dog.

My dog is a black lab/rottwieller mix. She started out her day today by eating the grease out of the pan from my George Foreman grill before I could get to it. That was before breakfast. My dog also has a taste for garbage, but only when I'm away. When I'm not she is usually staked out in front of my 1 year old, scavenging any morsels that might fall from his little hands. Occasionally when noone is looking she will simply help herself to whatever he has, only to run from the telltale scream. I know this sounds a bit like politics. but for now we're talking dogs.

When she is not begging or trying to get my attention with her "Ro-Ro-Ro" bark, she is enduring all manner of harmless abuse from the young ones. She is an excellent addition to our family and is more obedient than our teenager. Which may not be saying much, I've heard.

All these behaviors are tolerable, with a little give and take from the humans of the equation. But my wife's biggest difficult is the licking. Not the face licking kind. Now when Ebony, the lab, is cleaning, she is very thorough. And very loud, slurping and snorting and carrying on. I find it funny if not quite a bit distracting. My wife just makes her leave.

Now I could go anywhere with this dog culture of licking and snorting. But I promised myself to stay away from the licking jokes, except maybe to say," Cleanliness is next to dogliness..." :)

Have a doggone good day!

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