The ongoing saga of B-B and B Part 26: Remember that old Carpenter's song, "Close to You"?

 You can easily find the song Close to You by the sibling duo Richard and Karen Carpenter through any of a number of search engines.  But B and B-B would like to show off their versions of close to you through interpretive sleeping positions.  First up:

Couch Cuddling

Now for a side close up:

Bed Buddies

Floor Friends

And finally, an in-your-face close up because not only do they like to be close to each other, they like to be close to you too!  (Because B and B-B say if you're following this blog you've got to be a pretty great person!)

The ongoing saga of B-B and B Part 25: Three "S" exercises with B!

 B will now lead the class in a quick example of the following exercises in order:

-stretch

-shake

-scratch

The ongoing saga of B-B and B Part 24: "Drool" Part 2

B-B drooling over something in the living room.  Who knows what-practically any food, either dog or human grade, is enough to start B-B salivating.

B-B often slimes B with lines of drool saliva.  Here he's managed to slime himself over his muzzle and up between his eyes.  When the lines of drool are long and sticky,  he just needs to shake his head and then they'll stick almost anywhere.  The consistency is similar to the lines of slime that one sees in the garden after slugs and snails have left a trail. It's that gross but we love him in spite of more frequent hand and clothing washing due to his slobber.   He really does have some heavy duty drool.

 

The ongoing saga of B-B and B Part 23: Toy Stealing to Mutual Carrot Chomping

These contrasting videos were shot on the same day, less than a 1/2 hour apart.  Are these two behaving like siblings, or what? In the first one, at around 7:50 p.m., B decides that B-B cannot have his blue rubber and rope tug toy and makes some interesting vocalizations to determine toy ownership.

In the second video around 8:15  p.m. I had given them several full size carrots cut in half so that they would each get a few pieces.  Surprisingly, they still share common chunks of carrot. (Not shown in the video but they did share and took bites from some of the same carrot halves with their heads right next to each other.)  I would have thought they'd be more inclined to fight over the food.  When we first got B-B a year ago there would be some sharp reactive growls and behaviors from B over food and food bowls but now they take turns licking out each others food bowls and will even take turns with some foods.  B-B tends to wolf things down as quickly as he can but B takes her time.  However, sometimes she surprises us and eats more quickly.  She'll move over to B-B's portion and they communally eat from the same bowl with no signs of aggression or territorial/reactive behavior.  We have worked to make sure they both ate separately until they both seemed satisfied and used a spray bottle with water when one went to steal a treat from the other one.  We also put them on leashes when they get a long lasting treat like a cow ear so they have separation from each other to just keep one (mostly-I mean entirely-B-who would happily keep many treats to herself even if just to hoard them away from B-B who barks in frustration when she hogs some of the toys).  Maybe carrots are just the magical sharing treat since they've done this before: https://cookingandorscience.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-ongoing-saga-of-b-b-and-b-part-9.html

 

The ongoing saga of B-B and B Part 22: Summertime and pool fun

B-B getting the sheep trough /pool filled in August of 2022. 

He's definitely a water dog and enjoys small and large bodies of water.

 

Sunday Randomness #430 : Hiding Tinsel and the pups meet Santa

My library is hiding Tinsel the elf in a different location each day in December.  If you find her you can get a treat ( a Hershey's Kiss) from the info or children's desks.  I signed up for a couple of days and the first day Tinsel was found in our book bag display encouraging patrons to buy a book bag-especially since the price will go from $1 to $2 starting in January 2023.

Her second hiding place was on top of the book sale where she encouraged patrons to buy a book!

I'm glad she doesn't have a fear of heights because I wouldn't have been comfortable being that high up from the ground!

 And the pups, B and B-B, got to meet Santa at Home Depot.  I don't think they were too impressed...they expected him to smell more like a workshop and cookies...the workshop smell was there with the Home Depot background but not the cookies.  Sigh. They'll just have to wait to see if Santa leaves them a treat Christmas morning.