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You know your in love with your dog when......

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Posted : 8/21/2006 6:37:25 PM

You have a kiddie wading pool in the yard, but no small children.
Lintwheels are on your shopping list every week.
You have baby gates permanently installed at strategic places around the house, but no babies.
The trash basket is more or less permanently installed in the kitchen sink, to keep the dog out of it while you're at work.
You can't see out the passenger side of the windshield because there are nose-prints all over the inside.
Poop has become a source of conversation for you and your significant other.
You refer to yourselves as Mommy and Daddy.
Your dog sleeps with you.
You have 32 different names for your dog. Most make no sense, but she understands.
You have little songs that you sing to your dog, and she always wags when you sing, even though you can't carry a tune.
Your dog eats cat poop, but you still let her kiss you (but not immediately afterward, of course).
You like people who like your dog. You despise people who don't.
You carry dog biscuits in your purse or pocket at all times.
You talk about your dog the way other people talk about their kid.
You sign and send birthday/anniversary/Christmas cards from your dog.
You put an extra blanket on the bed so your dog can be comfortable.
You'd rather stay home on Saturday night and cuddle your dog than go to the movies with your sweetie.

You go to the pet supply store every Saturday because it's one of the very few places that lets you bring your dog inside, and your dog loves to go with you.
You open your purse, and that big bunch of baggies you use for pick-ups pops out.
You get an extra-long hose on your shower-massage just so you can use it to wash your dog in the tub, without making the dog sit hip-deep in water.
You don't think it's the least bit strange to stand in the back yard chirping "Meg, pee!" over and over again, while Meg tends to play and forget what she's out there for (but what your neighbors think of your behavior is yet another story).
You and the dog come down with something like flu on the same day. Your dog sees the vet while you settle for an over-the-counter remedy from the drugstore.
Your dog is getting old and arthritic, so you go buy lumber and build her a small staircase so she can climb onto the bed by herself.
Your license plate or license plate frame mentions your dog.
You match your furniture/carpet/clothes to your dog.
You have your dog's picture on your office desk (but no one else's).
You lecture people on responsible dog ownership every chance you get.
You hang around the dog section of your local bookstore.
You skip breakfast so you can walk your dog in the morning before work.
You are the only idiot out walking in the pouring rain, but your dog needs her walk.
You don't go to happy hours with co-workers any more because you need to go home and see your dog.
Your parents refer to your pet as their granddog, remember her birthday, and send her greeting cards and gifts.

Your friend's dog acts as Best Dog at your wedding.
Your weekend activities are planned around taking your dog for a hike (both days).
You keep an extra water dish in your second-floor bedroom, in case your dog gets thirsty at night (after all, her other dish is way down on the first floor...).
Your freezer contains more dog bones than anything else.
You never completely finish a piece of steak or chicken (so your dog gets a taste, too).
You shovel a zig-zag path in the back yard snow so your dog can reach all her favorite spots.
You avoid vacuuming the house as long as possible because your dog is afraid of the vacuum cleaner.
You keep eating even after finding a dog hair in your pasta.
You make popcorn just to play catch with your dog.
You carry pictures of your dog in your wallet instead of pictures of your parents, siblings, significant other, or anyone else remotely human.

And the number one reason you know you're a dog person:

Your dog is the star of your World Wide Web site!

magilacudy

Posted : 8/21/2006 6:41:50 PM

So true. Very cute.

ron2

Posted : 8/21/2006 6:44:48 PM

You are the only idiot out walking in the pouring rain, but your dog needs her walk

I have a bumper sticker on the back of my camper top with two pics of Shadow and the words, "Dog is my co-pilot."

You know you love your dog when you just spent 8 to 11.5 hours working 105 F and go back out when you get home because your dog wants his walk. Or rain. Or, 25 degrees, 30 mph north wind, and snow, aka, heaven for a sled dog.

You spend way too much time online reading dog stuff and conversing on i-dog.

You try to write posts on the forum with a 62 pound lovehound in your lap with his paws and head draped over one arm (it's not easy. Good thing I work out..)

gradyupmybutt

Posted : 8/21/2006 7:20:39 PM

Um, yup! That's me. [

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the1irishgirl

Posted : 8/21/2006 8:36:23 PM

Haha, I am almost every one of those. People think I'm crazy. [

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boneyjean

Posted : 8/21/2006 8:42:16 PM

That's so funny! I related to most of those!

the1irishgirl

Posted : 8/21/2006 8:46:14 PM

The funniest one was the dog hair in the pasta. It wouldn't bother me too much, but I am always so worried that a stray hair will fly into our food if I have people over for dinner. I mean, we keep a clean house, but with three furries (2 dogs and a cat) in our one bedroom apartment, there is just bound to be a stray hair or two! Oh well, maybe next time they'll invite us to their house. [sm=lol.gif]

griffinej5

Posted : 8/21/2006 8:48:06 PM

The hair in the pasta one is so true, but I do at least pick it out first.

chewbecca

Posted : 8/21/2006 8:56:11 PM

A lot of those are true for me but this one is SO me.

* You avoid vacuuming the house as long as possible because your dog is afraid of the vacuum cleaner.

She is scared TO DEATH of the vacuum cleaner and I freak out and want to vacuum but I know that she will die. I have to wait until the weekends to vacuum, when my S.O. is home.

spiritdogs

Posted : 8/21/2006 9:02:26 PM

Sheprano, how did you know all about me when we've never met?? [sm=rofl.gif]

Paula Diffenbaugh

Posted : 8/21/2006 9:48:41 PM

Am I the only one who has a dog who follows them around when they vaccum? Jake follows me around until I give in and vaccum HIM. [sm=biggrin.gif]

Jan

Posted : 8/21/2006 11:49:52 PM

I'm almost embarrassed by how many of these things describe me.

In fact, I used to have this fabulous rainshower head that I loved unbelievably much. Total luxury, that! But Jessie likes to go to the beach, and she gets all sandy and muddy, bad enough that a regular bath just doesn't do it. She'd tolerate the shower, but she never really liked the rainshower thing, and it took me so long to get her rinsed off that way, so she had to tolerate it for along, long time.

So I switched my fabulous rainshower out for a hand shower. The spray isn't nearly as nice, it always comes out cold for the first two minutes while the hot water works it's way through the long hose to the spout, and it's not all that pretty to look at...but Jessie prefers getting bathed this way.

I wonder sometimes when I started working my life and my home around my dog. My Mom used to joke that "You get a dog to make YOU happy, not so you can make the dog happy."

But the thing is, when you have a dog, you're that dog's whole life. So it seems to me that you SHOULD be making them happy, because if you don't, who will?

Jan

corvus

Posted : 8/22/2006 2:46:24 AM

ORIGINAL: ron2

You try to write posts on the forum with a 62 pound lovehound in your lap with his paws and head draped over one arm (it's not easy. Good thing I work out..)

Oh my goodness! We have a cat that sits in your lap and rests the front half of her body on your mouse arm when you're working on the computer. She's about 5kg. I usually kick her off after about 15 minutes because my arm can't take it anymore. I can only imagine what it would be like with a 62 pound dog! [

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corvus

Posted : 8/22/2006 2:51:53 AM

ORIGINAL: luv_my_jakey

Am I the only one who has a dog who follows them around when they vaccum? Jake follows me around until I give in and vaccum HIM. [sm=biggrin.gif]

Hehe, my dog loves the vacuum, too. She lurks under beds and tables and ambushes it when it goes past. It tends to make cleaning floors pretty difficult. She usually ends up outside about 5 minutes into it because it's getting less funny and more time consuming by the second. [

] My hare, though, hates the vaccuum. I have to let him out of his cage so he can go find somewhere to hide until I'm done. For a while there, I had this bizarre dance going on with the dog diving on the vaccuum head and chasing it around the room and the hare dashing desperately out of the way only to get nearly trampled a moment later when the dog retreated to rally for another assault on the vaccuum. It was so chaotic I just ignored both of them and whipped through the room as quickly as possible.

ron2

Posted : 8/22/2006 6:02:24 AM

Strenuous i-dogging.