Hello and welcome to the Dotcomdoggies Paw Print Blog!

This is Scooter sitting in for my human, Paulette Jones.  (That’s me in the picture!)  She’s just not in the mood to write today and so she asked me to “pinch hit” for her.   She mumbled something about “writer’s block” and headed out the door in her walking shoes.  She never even glanced at my harness and leash, so I knew she was in the mood for one of “those” hikes. 

She’s gone now and we don’t expect her to be back for quite a while.  It’s a good time of the day for me to collect my thoughts and do my best to get them down on paper.

It’s not always easy being a dog.  You humans think that it’s all about playing, eating, napping and looking cute.  Sure those things occupy a lot of my time but sometimes the pressure to live up to the expectations that people place upon us is a heavy burden.  Meatball sometimes gets an upset tummy, a condition that I attribute to the stress of having to be cute as a button whenever any people are around. 

When there are no humans around, when it’s just us pups, we can let down our guard for a while and not have to worry about whether or not our tails are sticking straight up and whether or not they are moving fast enough as we wag them vigorously from side to side.

When it’s just us pups, we can watch whatever we want to on the television and we can nap on furniture that our human doesn’t want us to sit on. 

When it’s just us pups, we can bring our favorite chew toys inside from the back yard.  We can drool and chew and tear them to pieces while laying on the big soft rug in the living room.

When it’s just us pups, we can poop in that one spot behind the couch.  By the time she finds it, she won’t be able to tell which one of us did it.  She’s scowl and raise her voice as she picks it up, but we won’t really be in trouble since my stuff looks just like Meatball’s stuff.  She’ll never know who to blame.  We have both developed a really good “innocent face” and we cover for each other really well.

So if you are reading this and you happen to be a human, I’m just letting you in on the kind of stuff that dogs like Meatball and I do when you’re not around.  Some dogs like to go through their human’s underwear drawer, some dogs like to try on their human’s clothing.  Some dogs throw wild and outrageous parties for their doggie friends and then work together as a team to put everything back to normal before their humans come home. 

Those dogs might be referred to as “baaaaaaaaddddd daaawwwwwwwwgggsssssss” by a lot of humans. 

But Meatball and I are really pretty “gooooooooooodddddddd daaawwwwwwwwwwgggsss”, ‘cause all we do is a little chewing and pooping.  OK, so we also climb on furniture that we’re not supposed to be on. 

So, a little bit of chewing and pooping and climbing on forbidden furniture.  That’s it. 

OK, so I did go through underwear drawers when I was a pup.  But I grew out of that phase.

So now I just chew, poop and climb on forbidden furniture.  I’m a goooooooooodddd dawwwwggg, right?

Right???

Scooter Jones