- Play bongo drums on her belly.
- Ask her how she got to be so cute, as though it were a serious question. Ask whether she consults with cuteness specialists, or whether she was born that way, or studies it, while scratching her.
- Sing along to songs while changing the lyrics into nonsense, dog-centric lyrics to see if I can make her wag her tail.
- Steal her bone and pretend to chew on it until she steals it back.
- Give her faint praise (e.g. "You're the best one-eyed, three-legged dog in the whole living room!")
- Invite her to snuggle with me on the sofa or the love seat on very special occasions.
- Pretend to be shocked and disappointed when I find her on the furniture when she hasn't been invited, and order her off.
- Smell the soft sweet place behind her ears.
- Tell her that she has dogbreath. Or pretend to be a detective trying to identify the source of dogbreath, and tracing it to her.
- Feel around the fatty lumps she has on her chest and upper front legs to make sure they haven't grown, or hardened, or become dangerous.
- Let her gum my fists while I pretend to box with her.
- Quote Oliver Wendell Holmes to her: "Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbled over and being kicked." Even a dog! I ask her whether he was right. She wags.
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This is why I read this blog. My dog and I just had a similar discussion about that same Holmes quote. (He, too, was in agreement. And then went back to chewing on his rope toy thingy...) Do whatever is best for you, but know that if you should opt for a private blog, you will be missed!
Posted by: mj | February 16, 2005 at 08:11 PM
oh the fuzzy creatures . . . how delicious and lovely and fabulous they are with their yummy smelly creature breath and their fuzzy fur and their lumpy signs of age and fabulousness that is them and us with them and our routines with them that we love to do over and over. Thank you for such a lovely post. (I found my way over from Switched at Birth :)
Posted by: katherine | February 16, 2005 at 10:55 PM
I do the first three, fifth, and penultimate items on your list with my cat.
Posted by: Dylan | February 17, 2005 at 04:38 PM