Dogz

I wonder if we tend to adopt odd dogs or do they become odd once they become ours.

Case in point, Charlie and Kali. He the size of a lion, she of a mixed heritage of what has to be two of the most obscure breeds.

Charlie has taken to sleeping in the bay window in the living room of the rental house. Like a cat, only Charlie must be 100 pounds or more. It's the silliest thing to see this big old beast snoozing away as peaceful as can be.

Kali has not avoided the odd either. First she climbed a tree when she lived with Charlie and Josh at the neighbor's house till we found a place for all of us. Climbed a tree and sat in the crotch of that tree grinning like a fool. We have no idea WHY she climbed the tree only that she did.

There's no tree in the yard of the rental house. There is hardly any yard at all but there are two bushes and Kali perches right in the middle of one of the bushes as if sitting in a nest. I think she does that to stay away from Charlie.

Both dogs love bubble wrap and envelopes from China. Just china... not Israel or Great Brittan or Canada but China. I've just discovered that they can play for the longest time by themselves with something as simple as a tennis ball carrying it up the steps then letting it go watching it bounce down the steps, step by step, till it's nearly at the bottom then whoosh down the stairs and into a mouth.

There is a new thing that is happening. Josh works nights now, coming home sometime around 11. If I should be in the craft room upstairs and Michael decides to go to bed, the dogs come get me, so I can go downstairs with them and open the front door so they can sit at the storm door and wait. It didn't dawn on me one night when Kali came up to get me and I tried to shoo her away. She went, returned with Charlie who took my wrist in his mouth and then gently led me downstairs to the door. I'm not about to leave the inner door open and the storm door unlocked while upstairs so I settle with them and wait.

Now if I could only teach them to do housework, life would be perfect.