Treats

[stoutfellow]

I'm still in the process of determining which doggie-treats Buster and Gracie like. Most recently, I bought a box of Milk-Bone Mar-O-Snaks. These were among Ben and Murphy's favorites, and they come in nice big boxes so I don't have to restock as often.

Buster and Gracie will eat them eventually, but before they do they treat them as prizes. Whoever gets one will carry it off and put it down somewhere, but must remain on constant guard lest the other snatch it. (Gracie is apt to forget about it, and gets upset when, as might be predicted, Buster takes it away.) It's a bit disconcerting to be petting a dog who tenses up whenever the other dog comes in view. I think maybe I should find them a different brand of treat.

On an unrelated note, this morning as I was dressing Gracie tried to run off with my socks. (No, I hadn't yet put them on.) A sharp "no-no-nooo!" persuaded her otherwise. First time she's tried that.

Comments

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

You were dressing Gracie in what outfit?

Love, c.

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

Her furs, of course; I'd just had them dry-cleaned.

I still wonder what the morning planned to do with my socks.

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

Ah. Of course!

Much too warm here today for furs. Unless these furs come with the territory, so to speak.

Love, C.

[hornedhopper.livejournal.com]

Snort! I read it that way, too :)

StoutFellow, I wonder if she was hoping to persuade you to *stay*.

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

I should have paid attention to Geoff Pullum (http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1311).

I wonder if she was hoping to persuade you to *stay*.

Perhaps, but getting dressed is usually the precursor to *taking them for a walk*.

[hornedhopper.livejournal.com]

Interesting blog post!

I take it you don't have *professorial* wear versus home/go-on-a-walk wear...

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

No, I pretty much wear the same sort of clothes all the time. (There's some seasonal variation, of course.) I have a few shirts that I don't wear to work, and one set of grubbies that I don't leave the house/yard in, but other than that I've only got one style.