You Gotta Love Dogs
This is why I love dogs. There is no other love like it on the planet.
Turn on your sound. It really does make a difference!
I don't remember now who it was but someone told me not too long ago that they couldn't get a dog because they had a cat... an OUTSIDE cat. WHAT? You gotta be kidding me! First off, if you want a dog, get a god damn dog. Second off, what does an outside cat have to do with getting a dog? Plus, a dog just makes life better altogether, ya know? I look forward to pulling into my driveway because when I'm gone and let my dogs stay in the backyard and seeing how excited they get when they see my truck coming down the street just makes me happy to come home... even when the kids have pissed me off, or if I've got a headache, or I'm tired. I can be in the best of moods or the worst and they just make me smile! Even waking up in the morning after they've hogged the bed all night, like last night (JADE!!!!!!) and I've had to hear one of them snoring away all night (JADE!!!!!!!!) and it still doesn't matter. I just wanna snuggle up and love on 'em.
I'll have to take pictures of my neice's face when she's sees them. She gets so excited watching them and they are SO careful around her. My sister worried at first because my dogs are sort of big. Not huge, but a little bit big (Woody is about 85lbs and Jade's big ass weighs about 75lbs) and her dog is one of those tiny little yippy dogs (Yorkie). So she was convinced my dogs would trample her. But labs are very aware of what is around them and they are SO careful around her. I have a crib here for her because I worried about how the dogs would be but when I lay her on the bed the dogs will lay protectively on either side of her but not too close to agitate her. I can't describe it right, but I know my dogs and how they act. They're good.
I can tell Woody to get off my tile when I'm in the kitchen cooking and he'll go and sit at the edge of the carpet where it meets the ceramic tile until I tell him he can come in. He has always been able to sit, shake and lay so that's nothing and Jade picked it up after we got her because she'll do whatever he does.
Go out and get a dog. It'll do you good.