Nubs was whining in his crate because his food was an hour late, and Peanut was whining because her daily dose of morning heat from the heater was an hour late. I feed them, let them outside, then decide that because of how sick I am, breakfast would be a good thing to help keep me up and going at work. I had some left over ham from New Years Day, then the last 6 eggs, and 4 slices of cheese... Scrambled eggs anyone?
I sit everything out, and turn on what is now known in my house as the "Puppy sitter" AKA the furnace and then let the dogs back inside. Nubs makes a mad dash to the heater, with Peanut on his heals. As she passes the food on the counter top, you can just see the wheels in her head start turning. I'm surprised that she didn't get whiplash with how fast her head whipped back toward the smell of the food. Her body followed her head and she ended up on her belly resembling Bambi and his first steps on ice.
It only took her a few seconds to get her footing, and she was doing her thing trying to locate where the source of smell was coming from. It took her 3 seconds to locate the bowl of Ham on the counter and .2 seconds to indicate to me that she had found the smell. How does she indicate you ask? Well, what better way then paws on the counter and taking the ham bowl in her mouth and trying to pull it off the counter.
Me- "Peanut, thank you for locating that smell. What would I do without you?"
Peanut - "No need to thank me Mom. Just give me the reward of eating the ham, and we will call it good"
Me- "I don't think so young lady. This is my food and that's that."
Peanut- "Tough call Mom. I think you will give me that ham or I will melt you with the power of cuteness!"
Me- "Try me!"
It didn't work. Peanut was put outside the kitchen (which lasted a whole 30seconds) and I went back to making my food.
Nose working dogs are great dogs, but their noses NEVER turn off.
I'm late to reading this, but I love your posts about the dogs. I'm glad that Peanut is turning out to be the dog you were looking for even though you didn't know it at the time! Roxxy is little but boy does she have a nose...she would probably do great sniffing out stuff!
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