You know you're a dog lover when...
But I just can't seem to help it. If it has an OES on it, I just get SSSOOO tempted (or if it is purple... or has coffee cups/beans on it... or has cats...) I think only true dog lovers can appreciate my fascination with the specie. Heck, a lot of people think I'm crazy that I carry wallet size photos of my dogs! So does anyone else have stories to tell about their fascination with their dogs where non-dog people just look at you funny? |
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Hmmmm...I think I feel a Coffee Drinking Sheepdog print with a purple background coming on   Are you kidding me? Even other dog people think we're nuts! Sheepie bumper stickers, coffee mugs, T-shirts, calenders, even my eyeglasses case has a sheepdog on it!   |
| It even goes beyond merchandise with me. Do you know the looks I get when I bring up my dogs in conversation. Especially when I just mention Wendel's name, most people think it's a two legged child. I get the weirdest looks when I tell them that my kid is a dog. |
| I'm going back to pink. I'm so sorry I have forsaken you PINK please forgive my affair with black I didn't mean to call you childish and say I had outgrown you. For a while I thought purple was the adult pink but now I realise there is just no substitute. Just don't show me anything pink with sheepies on it   |
* Capt. Obvious Danger wrote: It even goes beyond merchandise with me. Do you know the looks I get when I bring up my dogs in conversation. Especially when I just mention Wendel's name, most people think it's a two legged child. I get the weirdest looks when I tell them that my kid is a dog. I guess I don't really talk to non-dog people very much. Since my dogs are often with me in public, conversations with strangers tend to revolve around them  My friends and family are all dog-a-maniacs, and in the few non-dog, non-art related social events I find myself at I tend to clam up  |
I do think Sheepies who own people ARE a very rare breed....((  ))...I find myself, busy at work,thinking of my girls and wishing the day will end so I can snuggle up with them, pet them and just be with them. The crazy thing is, these puppers have gotten under Dino's skin as well. I will be doing something, and, all of a sudden, I hear him laughing and he will yell..""Look what Heart is doing!!"" look...look...LOOK... (if anyone knows my hubby his is a burly guy and NOT a softy...unless it involves Heart or Pearl... ))):D and I too am getting buried in all my sheepiethemed stuff!!!! and my favorite piece is my wood and rubber band bracelet from Nationals 2008...... |
* Capt. Obvious Danger wrote: It even goes beyond merchandise with me. Do you know the looks I get when I bring up my dogs in conversation. Especially when I just mention Wendel's name, most people think it's a two legged child. I get the weirdest looks when I tell them that my kid is a dog. I've conditioned myself to only talk dogs with other dog people because I do NOT want to talk about children with dogless people. I have a friend that will talk for hours about how funny and special her boring children are so I purposely stopped talking about the dogs, thinking maybe I wouldn't have to hear the lame kid stories anymore. It didn't work but, as a courtesy, I only offer dog information when asked because I never want to be the boring story teller. I realize that although they're very special to me, other people may not care! |
| Val and "the bracelet" - Have you ever posted a picture?? Todd is as bad as Dino..... e complains about all the dogs - "normal people don't have this many dogs", "we look like hoarders", "what, another foster?", and on and on. And who gets a puppy this past fall???? me? - no - TODD! Me and the kids give him crap all the time - so much for his "macho" image. I rotate through all my dog related clothes at work (I do home care and dress is casual). I have been with this client since last February, and they (client and his wife) know nothing about dogs. Every time I wear a new (to them) shirt, they have to check it out. I guess I am broadening their horizons a bit.  They find all my dog stuff interesting, and expect reports every week on what we did over the weekend. The agility videos were a huge hit - they had me showing it to all the visitors and other nurses! |
| I would w/o hesitation take Daphne w/me everywhere if I was allowed to. I am talking church, 5 star restaurants, you name it. Some of my dog friends actually do also invite Daphne over along w/my husband to dinner at their home. I took Daphne to my grandmother's funeral a couple of years ago. She did not go into the church but she was w/me outside at the grave site. I know that my Grandmother loved animals and would have wanted it that way. I also would never be close friends w/anyone who does not like dogs. There is something very wrong w/that kind of person! |
you just drive around the block so the boys will get a car ride  |
crazylaplap wrote: I also would never be close friends w/anyone who does not like dogs. There is something very wrong w/that kind of person! me too!!!! |
| I have three boys but I only have 1 photo of each of them on my iPhone. Whereas I have over 20 pics of Sammy. Whenever Im working and my fellow flight attendants start whipping out photos of their kids, I show them pics of my Sammy and Max. Then they say what about your kids...? I say never mind them...look at how cute my OES is. It's gotten to the point where they think I'm lying about having children. I then have to PROVE to them I have kids. |
| I'm SO there with all the sheepie merchandise - pictures, statuettes, blankets, stuffed toys, magnets, etc. My son's gf asked him what she could get me for Christmas and casually mentioned to him about maybe something sheepie. His response? "Don't encourage her!" |
| let me put it this way. if a polite sheepie is standing doing wiggle butt to be petted and a person avoids, ignores or shush's em away, be cautious about that person. now, just so nobody misunderstands, if someone has been afraid of all dogs or has had a bad incident or a reasonable reason for their avoidance or dislike, then thats understandable. just have to say i could have saved some considerable troubles for myself and family if i had been more attune to this behavior.no, i'm not talking about one or two individuals and standing the test of 5 dogs over 4 decades, i'm now quite convinced that this is a telltale sign of a problem individual ranging from just not as honest or nice as you would believe and also pure evil. fwiw have a great day with your dog. p.s. i would add my reference to sheepie in the 1st line is purely because their too cute, but it could of course be any polite breed. |
* Capt. Obvious Danger wrote: ..Heck, a lot of people think I'm crazy that I carry wallet size photos of my dogs! I sure don't. I carry fully edited slowmo movies of my dogs with music on my iphone. |
| ...the food bin is a little low and not wanting to get too low you get back in the car, after a long and busy day, dead tired, fight the snow and icy roads, have only 10 minutes until the feed store closes, take Patch into the store to say hello to everyone, stop at the treat bins and fill a few bags, slip and slide back to the car with the bag of food and bags of treats with Patch also slipping and sliding, and drive back in the blizzard only to get home with a VERY happy and loving Patch - it was all worth the trip. |
| You know you're a dog lover when... You had plans to go out for a nice fancy steak dinner, but when you get home you realize you'd rather stay home with the dogs anyway, so you order pizza in instead, and then avoid pepperoni because you know it upsets THEIR tummies. I am totally guilty of that one. |
| I'm the mum to 5 grown kids and grandmum to 3. All human! The other day the girl at the checkout noticed pics of my dogs in my wallet when I was getting money out to pay her, and she said, "oh, that's so cute when people who don't have kids carry pictures of their dogs with them instead"! If I hadn't felt so guilty that I had no pics of any of my brood with me I would have bragged about them too. When I scanned the walls at home later, I noticed all my pictures hanging up were of my dogs!!! |
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