We just had a wonderful visit with brother in law Scott. Border collie Sofi - however - oh my goodness. What a mess she can be. I love this nutter dog but she. is. completely. insane. When it's just me and w she's fairly well behaved. But bring another person into the house for a couple days and she can't contain herself. She cannot get close enough to the guest. I think if she could she would crawl up peoples' noses wriggle around until she was in the middle of their brain and still be thinking: I can get a little cloooooser...a littleeeee closer!
A couple weeks ago when cousin Mark was here she was a little better, but now I think she was just honing her craft with Mark: perfecting evasive maneuvers that humans do to prevent her from crawling quickly into their laps and planting big slobbery wet licks all over their faces before they knew what was happening.
A request to anyone out there - PLEASE don't take this as a solicitation for dog training advice. If you don't have a border collie, and if that border collie is not a little nuts - then you have no idea. It is not the same as your lab mix. And then if you ignore that - do not preface your unsolicited advice with a reference to the Dog Whisperer. That show makes me insane.
Here she is - the object of my love and continual frustration, Sofi, commanding me via telepathy to throw the frisbee more. She is not too tired. She can do it even after she dies from exhaustion if I will just hold up my part.
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HAAAAAAAAAAA! This is the best freakin' post... and so, so, so true! I remember waking up in that tiny bed, opening my eyes to Sofi- about 1 inch from my face. She'd have 1 paw up on the bed and when I'd look at her she'd lift a back leg.... and I'd say, "Sofi, no!" and she'd put the leg halfway back down but it would slowly come back up again and meanwhile what?! How did her front half get so much further into the bed? And there's that back leg again- she's practically completely in the bed! How did that happen?!?!
Sofi is a complete, utter NUTTER. And so stinkin' sweet! The Dog Whisperer says... (GIGGLE!)
PS- Mom & Bill quote the stupid Dog Whisperer all the time and they have the worst-behaved dog EVER. Sweet... but spoiled rotten!
Sarah - may I say - you're comment made me laugh so hard.
It made you laugh 'cause you can totally picture it! I love doing my impression of this Sofi episode for people- it's so much fun to imitate the slowly-lifting leg.
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