The Other Coast by Adrian Raeside for December 24, 2020

Works with me.

Hey, if I don’t remember doing it, why should he?

There’s no such thing as a bad dog.

My two Aussies learned the “Soft Paw” trick YEARS ago…and it still works!

Natural dog tricks.

Our husky has no subtlety at all. She can adopt the sad eyes, head in your lap look as well as any dog. But her approach is all business. She marches up with her head and her tail in the air, then PLOP the head into your lap, eyes upward. The transition makes the final “sad eye” look hysterical.

Who tamed whom?

Dang those dogs and their insidious but highly effective tricks!

I think Santa has a spy!

Oh, no! The “sad eyes look”! —Waitaminnit! What have you done now??

My dog rests her head on my thigh (while I’m seated) when she begs

My wife made some chocolate chip cookies with 60 and 72% cacao, and had left to do some errands leaving the cookies out on the counter. I heard a loud crash from another room, and bolted for the kitchen. The cookies were disturbed and many were missing. Well, naturally I figured my big dog, big enough to reach the counter top, had gotten them. Quick trip to the vet, came back home to find a one of a kind planter with a 14 inch hemispherical antique hand blown bowl worth perhaps $300.00 had been the casualty, not the cookies. Wife had taken the missing cookies to a friend. I was so relieved.

Both of those work for me……

Yeah dogs can get away with so much.

Merry Christmas Everyone, and thank you so much for sharing all your great stories!!!!!!!!! :)

Going to Heaven is by favor, if it was by merit then it would be full of dogs and far fewer people.