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Friday, February 16, 2007


Thankies all for the comments ^___^

I didn't quite get to finish my post yesterday as I got cut off by various happenings inside the house; I'd wanted to introduce the dogs properly to everyone who didn't know them.

The big, black Standard Poodle is Romulus. He's the oldest, and boss dog. He turns 11 later this month, which is quite a shock as I'd always thought of him as about 8. He certainly doesn't seem like he's coming on for middle age. He's a very masculine dog, too- bulky, muscular, doesn't particularly like being hugged and will always make sure the other two know their place. But he loves playing, too, especially when the other dogs are outside. Sometimes he'll lure the other two into the garden, wait for us to shut the door and then grab one of his toys so he can play without the others trying to join in ^_^ Silly puppy. His favourite toy is this dual-coloured ball with two holes in it which you fill with kibble and let him roll around the house, eating the bits thet come out one by one. He enjoys eating from that much more than his actual food bowl, which he'll barely touch during the day.

Merlin is our middle one- the brown Standard Poodle, and Romulus' cousin. He must be about 8 now, which is even more bizarre than Romulus' actual age. Merlin's a bit of a poof, truth be told. He's not very brave, and much prefers women to men, who he's almost always wary of whenever they come into the house. He's all over the ladies, though. His tail's a bit eccentric. Whilst Romulus was docked, he wasn't, so it doesn't wag as you'd expect a tail to wag- it loops and does figures of eights and all sorts of things. It can wag really fast, as well. If he's sat on the floor and his tail starts wagging, it's usually a hyper-fast vibration, a bit like one of those cappuccino frothers. He loves being hugged, however, and will go out of his way to get close to you if he can. In some respects I believe he's actually half cat, with the way he'll curl himself round your leg, rub up against you and drape himself over your lap when you're sat on a chair. Although he's second-in-command, technically, he has a problem enforcing authority with Taiko, who just wags his tail and ignores him. He tends to get left out of playfights a bit, too, but you can tell he desperately wants to join in. So most of the time he'll sit there and bark. Or stick his tongue in your ear.

Taiko is our youngest- he's the little black Labrador/collie cross. He's about 18 months old, and completely wonderful. He's bouncy and will always always always play with you, even if you don't want him to. Most of his playing consists of him playfully sinking his teeth into your feet or legs while you're walking from one room to another, or wrapping his front paws round your leg like some kind of canine rugby-tackle. He's excited by everything, and will follow anyone that's travelling in any direction to see where they're going, and then get disappointed when he finds out their destination isn't actually that exciting after all.

I love my dogs, completely. They have their awkward moments (usually when Merlin will start barking for apparently no reason and not stop, or when Romulus really doesn't want to come out of his cupboard to go for a walk), but they're such lovely company, and it's always fun sending them up to people's bedrooms to wake them up. Normally they're not allowed upstairs, see, so they're always after excuses to venture up.

I've uploaded another video of them, which I planned to do last night. This has a little bit more of Merlin in it, heh.

The link be here.

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Thank you, SomeGuy. I needed to hear that, although I feel stupid for not realising it in the first place. I guess I got too complacent with how much of myself I actually knew. I should try not to jump to conclusions so much. I think the crux of it is that I want to be moving on, but I don't feel I am, so I get frustrated with things and make a snap decision which doesn't always work. It's always easier to be carried along with something you know than try to break out of yourself and go for what you really want to pursue.

And I'd love to see your dogs, Panda ^_^

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