I saw a truncated version of this blog post circulating the dog boards a while back, but friend Bev directed us to the original article. (Warning: occasional coarse language.) It’s a funny and accurate depiction of dogs, from their perpetual hunger to their noses getting out of joint when one of their people leaves for a while.
One thing about having a thinking dog is that they can and do hold grudges. Peter’s childhood border collie Daisy got downright shirty with me when Peter and I started going out together. (One time when we were snuggling on the couch Daisy gave us a filthy look, growled, and slunk away to another room.) Miss Photon holds a grudge against us on the relatively rare occasion that we get angry at her. After a particularly disastrous agility class a couple of weeks back (where I got quite sharp with her) she wouldn’t go near me and sulked on her bed (while I sulked in my office). After a bad walk in the dog park where she’s “forgotten” her recalls or heeling, she’ll avoid Peter or me—whichever person it was who walked her and growled at her—and hang out with the other person. For a while.