Getting to Know You!
I really don’t know how much thought goes into adopting a dog for most humans.
For myself, it has varied over the years. When I adopted Bill, my Bull Terrier, it was based on my mom’s question about the dog in the book she was reading. She asked me, “What breed of dog has a head shaped like a mule and would jump out of a window to save his owner? I answered that he was probably a Bull Terrier, based on his head description; although, the only way that guy was jumping out of a window would have been if his owner had a sandwich in her pocket. That dog character was named Bill, and that’s when I decided to look high and low for a Bull Terrier and give him the same name!
Freddie was my heart dog, and it was love at first sight from a picture posted by a rescue group. Fanny May was my “replacement dog” that I took home, still grieving from Freddie’s death.
Some of us have a fondness for a particular breed, some are just “star struck” by something we feel and others come to us because we know that to have loved a dog, means filling a broken heart with another.
But I started wondering lately that for as many dogs live in U.S. households, do we really know them?
And now I will digress…
Stephen Colbert, the guy who kept me laughing and sane for the last eleven years, was taken off the air on May 21st. I wanted to reflect on his Colbert Questionnaire, that he gave some guests, “To Be fully known” and so I decided to ask my dog Fredo to take the questionnaire because after living here two years, I still have no clue who the heck this little rascal is.
Best Sandwich? ‘Hell, I’d eat 2 kitty poop patties and special sauce between a styrofoam bun!”
What's one thing you own that you should really throw out? “My dried saliva, cloth-covered squeaky toy.”
What is the scariest animal? “I’m afraid of nothing, Jack!”
Apples or oranges? “Clementines”
Have you ever asked someone for their autograph? “No, everyone is a star in my eyes.”
What do you think happens when we die? “We send another dog to heal our human’s broken heart.”
Favorite action movie? “The Karate Kid…Wax on. Wax off.”
Favorite smell? “The treasures in the cat’s litter box.”
Least favorite smell? “Air freshener.”
Exercise: worth it? “Not with these stumpy Bulldog legs and smushed face.”
Flat or sparkling? “Toilet water”
Most used app on your phone? “WhatsApp mean?”
You get one song to listen to for the rest of your life: what is it? “Who let the dogs out?-Woof-woof-woof-woof.”
What number am I thinking of? “One, and you’re right, I have to pee.”
Describe the rest of your life in five words. “I’ll continue to chew EVERYTHING!”
Fredo, you are known!
HAPPY TRAINING & ENLIGHTENMENT!
