What a great post! I have to say that Barkley and Sheba are both really good and so I have no stories from them...serious
ly.
BUT, their predecessor was my dog Rufus. I'll attach a picture of him. I could run down this list of posts and go "check, yep...did that and that and that".
My favourite stories of him involve getting up on counters and eating. The first was when I lived in a small group home as a live in support for three women who needed some support to live in the community. One of the women was going through a rough time and had gone off her meds, and had severe munchies all the time! I had baked about six dozen cookies for the house and our neighbours and had left them on the counter to cool. There was a 'maid's hole' in the wall that led out to the dining room, and the bench for dining room table was directly under the maid's hole (for those who don't know...a maid's hole is just that - a hole in the wall that allows you to pass things through from one room to another).
In any case, I came home to find about 3 dozen of the cookies gone! I was annoyed with the woman, thinking she had eaten them all.
Until I came into the dining room and saw Rufus ... he got up on the bench, climbed through the maid's hole ... crept across the counter, grabbed a mouthful of cookies and get this....BACKED himself back across the counter and out of the hole back onto the bench!
The next funniest involved a similiar scenario. My very hard of hearing dad; 12 mincemeat tarts in tinfoil cups; and my bad dog. Mom and I got home from shopping to see one tart left on the counter, and my dad asleep. Mom bawled him out ... only to walk into her bedroom to find Rufus, belly up and surrounded by 11 tin foil pans!
I miss that little buggar!