Reason #3613 that I love my puppy-dog: when she’s chewing on anything, even a really great bone, I can go over and put my nose down beside hers and go “yum yum yum” and pretend to eat it. Her reaction? She wags her tail and licks my nose. Just like Oreo. (With Oreo too I could put my nose right down to whatever she was eating and she’d just stare at me and wait to see what I did.) I would not dare try that with Zeeke.

Today while I was watching TV I was also writing in a notepad, and was sitting cross-legged. Zoe traipsed across my lap and for some completely unknown reason, instead of curling up on the length of couch on my right side, she laid down on the pillow and armrest immediately to my left. It was so funny, and so cute, I couldn’t bear to move (my leg was part of the support, so if I moved it would disturb her). Unfortunately after a while my knees started aching and I had to stretch out and get up, but she was just so adorable, curled up against my leg like that, perched on the arm rest.

Later on in the evening I was looking for the remote control in the cushions of the couch and instead pulled out a dog bone that had apparently been lost to the depths some time ago. The dogs immediately treated it like a brand new bone. Zoe found it first and laid down on the blanket with it to chew. When Zeeke saw her and found out what she had, he decided he wanted it. He repeatedly tried edging in to take it, but Zoe really doesn’t take kindly to that. Zeeke was getting annoyed, he started just barking at her. A spoiled child, demanding what little sister has. Well bucko, guess you don’t always get what you want - you can’t just run over and grab it! Of course a little later, when Zoe moved on to something else, he got his turn with it. He was just mad he couldn’t have it right that second. I’m just glad that Zoe is not a total pushover, and that her bitchiness doesn’t start a major fight that I need to break up.