I absolutely love dogs! I’m definitely a dog person. In the 17 years I’ve been alive there has always been at least one dog in my house.
Fellow dog people, which breeds have you owned? What’s your fondest memory of your pet?
This post is a bit long, but here are the dogs I’ve owned in chronological order:
- Muffin (beagle, female):
I had Muffin from before my birth until a month before my 15th birthday. She was very expressive. My funniest memory of her was a day when I heard a loud crash in my garage and further inspection revealed that she had managed to climb into a small recycling bin (in her old age) and land back first into it just to lick some remnants of soup off an unwashed plastic container. She was very annoyed when I picked her up and took the container away. Please rinse out recyclables if you have dogs lol
- Lilly (beagle, female): Unfortunately I don’t remember much of Lilly or have any pictures of her on my phone because she died when I was in kindergarten or first grade (2008 or 2009). She was a rescue from the pound.
- Bentley (Saint Bernard, female): I love big dogs. I only wish that they lived longer and didn’t have so many health issues. Bentley lived to be ten years old and she died a few weeks before my 12th birthday. When she got annoyed, her dirty looks were almost human. She never bit, rarely barked, and never whined, but her death stare was unmatched. When it snowed, she would abandon her usual sedentary routine and happily saunter through the cold on her arthritic legs. Snow made her so happy. Her outdoor water bowl being frozen, however, did not, and she would let us know with a look as if she was saying, “Fix it.”
- Junie (basset hound, female): I got her in February 2009 and she’s still alive today. I named her after Junie B. Jones, the main protagonist of a children’s book series that I loved at the time (because I was in first grade). She’s a bit stubborn and very loud, but I love her. One time had to move her (very large and shared with another dog) bed to be up against a wall because I had to take out a massive load of laundry and it was in my way. When I was putting the load away in another room, I heard some shuffling noises followed by a thud and then more shuffling. I feared that the bed had fallen on top of her (since it was a super thick, mattress-like one) and I ran back to the laundry room. Was she being crushed? No. There she was, pushing the bed back into its original position with her nose so she could lie back down on it. I was dumbfounded.
Opal (black lab mix, female): I got Opal in February 2018 and she’s two currently two years old. She’s very intelligent and also expressive like Muffin was. Opal knows four tricks: sit, shake, high five, and down. Oh, and she LOVES cheese. Obviously cheese is only an occasional treat for her, though. Muenster is her favorite (and mine). I know this because she drools so much that it forms little puddles when I have it. Although she accepts cheddar, she makes a face when I give it to her as if she knows that I’m giving her a less expensive cheese. She knows the sound of the cheese drawer in my fridge opening and I swear she can detect it from a mile away. The second I open it, I hear her little feet tapping the tile in the hallway. I’ve never had a dog that loves cheese this much. She does the same thing for watermelon, strawberries, and red apples (again, just a treat). No green apples. She made that very clear. I offered her a piece of one once and she dramatically gagged and spat it on the floor near my feet. She’s also very sensitive and eager to please. Any yelling or loud sounds, even if the yelling is jubilant such as that of my parents watching a sporting event on TV, make her visibly sad. She hides under tables for at least thirty minutes when she is disciplined (which is rare because she doesn’t misbehave very much) or when people are yelling.
That’s all the dogs I have owned! Here are pictures of Junie and Opal. I will look for some of Muffin and Bentley too.
Third picture is a perfectly captured sneeze lol
In the second one she is using Bentley’s butt as a pillow
Again, I apologize for the long post. I love my dogs and I’d love to hear about yours!
Fellow dog people, which breeds have you owned? What’s your fondest memory of your pet?
This post is a bit long, but here are the dogs I’ve owned in chronological order:
- Muffin (beagle, female):
I had Muffin from before my birth until a month before my 15th birthday. She was very expressive. My funniest memory of her was a day when I heard a loud crash in my garage and further inspection revealed that she had managed to climb into a small recycling bin (in her old age) and land back first into it just to lick some remnants of soup off an unwashed plastic container. She was very annoyed when I picked her up and took the container away. Please rinse out recyclables if you have dogs lol
- Lilly (beagle, female): Unfortunately I don’t remember much of Lilly or have any pictures of her on my phone because she died when I was in kindergarten or first grade (2008 or 2009). She was a rescue from the pound.
- Bentley (Saint Bernard, female): I love big dogs. I only wish that they lived longer and didn’t have so many health issues. Bentley lived to be ten years old and she died a few weeks before my 12th birthday. When she got annoyed, her dirty looks were almost human. She never bit, rarely barked, and never whined, but her death stare was unmatched. When it snowed, she would abandon her usual sedentary routine and happily saunter through the cold on her arthritic legs. Snow made her so happy. Her outdoor water bowl being frozen, however, did not, and she would let us know with a look as if she was saying, “Fix it.”
- Junie (basset hound, female): I got her in February 2009 and she’s still alive today. I named her after Junie B. Jones, the main protagonist of a children’s book series that I loved at the time (because I was in first grade). She’s a bit stubborn and very loud, but I love her. One time had to move her (very large and shared with another dog) bed to be up against a wall because I had to take out a massive load of laundry and it was in my way. When I was putting the load away in another room, I heard some shuffling noises followed by a thud and then more shuffling. I feared that the bed had fallen on top of her (since it was a super thick, mattress-like one) and I ran back to the laundry room. Was she being crushed? No. There she was, pushing the bed back into its original position with her nose so she could lie back down on it. I was dumbfounded.
Opal (black lab mix, female): I got Opal in February 2018 and she’s two currently two years old. She’s very intelligent and also expressive like Muffin was. Opal knows four tricks: sit, shake, high five, and down. Oh, and she LOVES cheese. Obviously cheese is only an occasional treat for her, though. Muenster is her favorite (and mine). I know this because she drools so much that it forms little puddles when I have it. Although she accepts cheddar, she makes a face when I give it to her as if she knows that I’m giving her a less expensive cheese. She knows the sound of the cheese drawer in my fridge opening and I swear she can detect it from a mile away. The second I open it, I hear her little feet tapping the tile in the hallway. I’ve never had a dog that loves cheese this much. She does the same thing for watermelon, strawberries, and red apples (again, just a treat). No green apples. She made that very clear. I offered her a piece of one once and she dramatically gagged and spat it on the floor near my feet. She’s also very sensitive and eager to please. Any yelling or loud sounds, even if the yelling is jubilant such as that of my parents watching a sporting event on TV, make her visibly sad. She hides under tables for at least thirty minutes when she is disciplined (which is rare because she doesn’t misbehave very much) or when people are yelling.
That’s all the dogs I have owned! Here are pictures of Junie and Opal. I will look for some of Muffin and Bentley too.
Third picture is a perfectly captured sneeze lol
In the second one she is using Bentley’s butt as a pillow
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