A Dog of Upright Character
Apr. 8th, 2011 07:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowDogs are weird.
Gracie, of course, is hyperactive, but her maneuvers are generally pretty stereotyped: get up and dance, hop in lap, burrow under sheets, and so on. Buster is, sort of, more venturesome; for instance, he's the one who, finding his path to me on the couch blocked by another dog, will get up on the back of the couch and walk over to me that way. But what he's been doing today takes the cake.
Today, a couple of times, I misplaced the book I was reading, and was wandering around the house looking for it - scanning shelves, moving small piles of things about, like that. Buster was following me, and apparently became curious about what Daddy was doing.
You know that thing prairie dogs and meerkats do? Getting up on their haunches, torso vertical, forelegs tucked against the body, neck craned as they peer about? That's what he was doing - getting vertical and holding the position for a few seconds, not dancing like Gracie, trying to see what I was up to. On one of those occasions, I held out my hand to him, and he stood there long enough for several licks before sinking gracefully to the ground.
Dogs are weird.
Gracie, of course, is hyperactive, but her maneuvers are generally pretty stereotyped: get up and dance, hop in lap, burrow under sheets, and so on. Buster is, sort of, more venturesome; for instance, he's the one who, finding his path to me on the couch blocked by another dog, will get up on the back of the couch and walk over to me that way. But what he's been doing today takes the cake.
Today, a couple of times, I misplaced the book I was reading, and was wandering around the house looking for it - scanning shelves, moving small piles of things about, like that. Buster was following me, and apparently became curious about what Daddy was doing.
You know that thing prairie dogs and meerkats do? Getting up on their haunches, torso vertical, forelegs tucked against the body, neck craned as they peer about? That's what he was doing - getting vertical and holding the position for a few seconds, not dancing like Gracie, trying to see what I was up to. On one of those occasions, I held out my hand to him, and he stood there long enough for several licks before sinking gracefully to the ground.
Dogs are weird.
