Caught!
Today, my boys were sitting at the kitchen table eating breakfast, I came out to my office to check email. The dogs were confined to the kitchen via our gate made of an old crib rail until their feet dried, since it is pouring rain today (warm enough to rain at the end of December?? I don't remember this ever happening!) Well, I heard the dogs playing rough and play fighting over a ball, and with wet slippery feet, they slid across the floor into the leg of the kitchen table where my boys were eating cereal, I heard the bang, heard the boys laughing, got up to check everyone, and saw cereal and milk all over the floor. None of them heard me open the gate, but I opened it and stood there with my hands on my hips and said "WHAT did you DO?!" almost laughing myself, but trying to sound stern. My two boys, ages 9 and 11, and my two sheepie girls, ages 6 months and 12 months, ALL stopped, froze, and looked at me like they were caught. Each one of them, people and canine, had the EXACT same expression on their faces. It is the funniest thing I have ever seen. I wish I could have caught that moment with a camera. |
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| That is too funny! I can just see them all sitting/standing there "whoops!It's MOM!!!!"
Isn't this weather weird?! It was 51 here yesterday!!! 51 on the 30th of December in MN!!! Bizarre! Karen  |
| Funny enough, I was just talking to my son not too long ago about that "quilty look" that kids get when caught in the act or after. As a kid you wondered how your mom would find out stuff - thinking wow they know everything. I think it's a trade secret amongst mothers..we don't tell them about how that look is so obvious! Sheepies get the same look too sometimes!
It must have been hilarious! |
| I had a close encounter with the "guilty look" yesterday,
I came into the kitchen and Chelsea bolted behind the table and chairs, she peeked out at me, head down, guilt all over her face. So I just looked at her because I couldn't figure out what the guilt was about, she moved a few steps and I heard this strange "crunch"- I said "Chelsea.... what's up?"- she moved her head up at the sound of her name, and again this "crunch, crunch". I stepped over to her and she darted away, and I hear "crunch". By this time I noticed her mouth was strangly frozen shut, usually when one of us comes into the room we get a big smile and lots of teeth and tounge hanging all over. So I knew she had something in her jaw, I nabbed her and made her spit it out. She had an entire eggshell, both halves, in her mouth and she had been gingerly holding it there, hoping I would leave her alone so that she could take her booty to her bed and investigate it. Busted. Garbage hound. Up. |
LOL.... too funny!  |
| I found myself chuckling over this one, as our JuJu does this ALL the time. She loves to dig in the trash can. She also closes her jaws to pretend she has nothing in her mouth to fake us out. She even knows that if the pantry door shuts, but does not click, that she will try to get in the garbage. She will wait until we go away. She does this with all the doors. If they don't click, she will try and open them up. She is an expert at door opening and dumpster diving! |
Must be another one of those sheepie traits! Drezzie used to do the same thing - we'd come home to find the kitchen cabinet door where the garbage can was wide open, and garbage ALL over the first floor!  And after the got everything out of the garbage, she'd attack the bread drawer!  And the hiding of the forbidden "fruit" in her mouth was, in hindsight, hysterical, but at the time, it was maddening! The little stinker, she knew what she did was wrong, cause after she'd ransack the garbage can and carry everything all over the first floor, she'd hide until we got home.  When we would walk in the back door and she wouldn't run up to greet us, we knew she was in trouble!!
Chris |
| Burcwen used to be a terrible dumpster diver. If you left the house but ten minutes she'd flip up the lid of the stainless steel garbage can and start digging away. She just couldn't take one thing out of the garbage either, she just had to take EVERYTHING out and spread it all over the floor! When I came home she would be happy to see me but when I saw the floor and said in a deep voice "burcwen, what have you done!?!" she would immediately hang her head in shame and slowly slouch off to the bathroom to hide! I solved the problem by putting a baby lock on the garbage can, so now she just eats the envelopes and old papers out of my office garbage can!
Last week, however, I was sitting at the table eating breakfast and my wife had to go out, so she patted burcwen on the head and made her custumary goodbyes. I guess burcwen either forgot or didn't realise that I was not only still at home but also right there at the table, because not a second after Jenn closed the door Burcwen made a beeline for the garbage can (which wasn't latched seeing as I was right there) and with admirable skill used her nose to flip the lid and started digging with glee! I snuck up behind her and shouted "WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?!?" and I swear she jumped up and ran so fast she left half her coat in the kitchen! Once she got over the shock of being caught red-beaked, she came trotting back to me trying to give kisses and be all nice like she'd done nothing wrong! What a dog! |
| I love it! |
| Willowsprite
Where was that camera????? |
| My sheepdog Mardi doesn't dumpster dive but he does carry the ball in his mouth and sometimes the end of his rawhide twists when it gets small enough before I take it from him. The one day he walked around for about a half hour teasing our Aussie Skye with what I thought was a toy hidden in his mouth. When I called them to give them a treat he ever so gently laid at my feet what was in his mouth and it was a dead baby bird. Sooo gross. Probably blew out of it's nest.The treat I was giving him was a piece of marinated asparagus that my best friend gave me the recipe for. You blanche asparagus and then pour a bottle of Ken's steakhouse caesar salad dressing over it and let it marinate overnight. I used to think it was great but I can't even bring myself to eat it now. |
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