Stop in for a cup of coffee
What else is a dog to doo?
He has chew ropes, tennis balls, and soccer balls that he's allowed to chew when he gets the urge.
But when he gets bored, he causes trouble. He gets the urge to chew on something. He likes to rip the fuzz off of tennis balls and make them bald...
If I come home with a wristband from a hospital or concert, he will chew it off of my wrist for me....
He will also take my band aids off.
He's so attached to me, that sometimes when I go out, he will stay outside my bedroom door and wait for me to get back... Only when I'm gone will he go hang out in the boys bedrooms with them...
When I'm home, he follows me into every room. Unless someone has food for him to beg from, he's always around me...
I was raised with/by Dalmatians. We had one before I was born, and she became my best friend growing up. Whenever I would get hurt, I would cry to her, and she would lick my tears until I stopped crying. She looked out for me and my brother and would fight any other dog that messed with us, even if they were bigger than her.. You don't mess with her kids...
When my brother was 5, the neighbor across the street's german shephard bit my brother and he came home crying. Our Dal snuck out of the house and went across the street and kicked her ***. The shephard was twice her size, our Dal was only 44 lbs, but she was tough. She beat the german shephard up so bad, that whenever my dad took her out in the front yard after that, the german shephard would run and hide around back of her house. She was scared of our Dalmatian after that - and never bit my brother again...
So, I'm kinda like a young kid in the wild that was raised by the wolves. I know my Dalmatians real well, and they really bond with me... She used to go to bed with me every night with her body under the covers and her head on the pillow with me and my arm around her. Our other Dal would sleep at the foot of my bed with us also...
Her's a picture of me and her sleeping below. The other picture below is of our other Dalmatian at the time. She was a real good jumper and could climb out of an 8 foot chain link fence. She was only 38 lbs, but my dad used to say that she had springs for back legs... She could also track a fly for 5-10 minutes, then jump 3-4 feet off the ground to catch it mid-flight...
And some people say that Dalmatians aren't good with kids... They are sooo wrong...