Theresa — re: #2 — yeah, and they’re STUBBORN (and therefore hard to train). But SOOOO lovey and people-oriented and good with the other aminals and silly and gentle and… well, let’s say Zoë has earned the title of “Treat-Seeking Missile”.
lol looks like my cocker spaniel Daisy when hubby and I get home. The glee in the eyes and the happy butt dance as we call it. She has a cropped tail so just her butt wags. me wants to pet puppeeeeeeeeee
Hee! Thanks for reminding me why I volunteered to pet-sit for two amazingly affectionate dogs and four not-as-affectionate cats next weekend. The dogs are JUST like this. “You’re back! You’re back! We missed you sooooo much! Er… Ignore all the stuff we knocked down around the house!”
My cats(!) look the same way when I come home. Both wait in the window till I come in then they both try and jump into my arms at the same time. We usually end up all tangled up in purrs and cuddles. It makes my day every day.
pftahahaha! I saw my mom yesterday for xmas gift swap & her 2 boxers were in the minivan (got a lift to the yarn store W1N!!1!). I thought they were gonna go hairless: “It’s..OMG, it’s big sissie Sandy, ZOMGWTFBBQ!!1! Hiyeeeeit’sbeensolonghowyoubeenwhat’dyouhaveforlunchweloveyouuu” lulz. I couldn’t live with dogs, i hate a racket but man, no one makes you feel more welcome than a dog
OMG, this is so my Leela. She gets so excited that I barely get into the house. She’s like, “OMG you were gone for soooooooooo long I thought you were never coming home pet me pet me pet me now give me a treat.”
I so love doggies!
This photo made my day and also made me so glad I ran to Target over lunch and bought two big bones for my babies to gnaw on tonight. Yay for dogs and their unconditional love for their peoples.
Mr. Picky usually creeps out from where he has been sleeping, and shows his belleh in welcome ["pat me, pat me, okay, that's enough"], and then herds me to his [empty] dish.
inktupbbw, great description of a boxer greeting (which i get not only when i come home, but also when i get out of bed in the morning, which is apparently a minor miracle which MUST BE CELEBRATED. my boxer has been known to wiggle herself far enough off balance to fall down a few times)!
awwwwww. I have a “godpuppy” – who is actually 12 – and I am her favorite visitor. She has to greet me before anyone else does when I visit. She has to jump on me and kiss me and has a special bark just for me.
There’s no love like puppy love.
Awwwww! Lol, my Axel does the same thing to my mommy, and for me. Even when we gets out of the car for ten minutes and comes back in he acts like he hasn’t seen us in a year!
My papillon, Kaili barks at us when we come home but our teeny, tiny sheltie, Riley B is all over us ( well, as all over as a
7lb girl can be) and soooooooo happy!!!
Then, not to be outdone, we have a 3 1/2
lb pap barreling at us all licky missile.
Love to come home to our house!!!!
PPS Cats DO SO get all ‘cited when you come home. My guys always bounce off the walls when I come home in the evening. Of course, pretty soon they forget why they started zooming all over the house in the first place.
Every time I come home from work, my cat is sitting on the back of the recliner *which is directly next to the door* and my husky is doing his happy=puppy-circle-dance-of-joy in front of the door.
A few weeks ago my boyfriend said they spend ALL day in those spots, just WAITING for the sound of the car door.
One day, their uncle came home from work early. I was told the utter disappointment when the door opened and produced HIM instead of ME, was unimaginable.
All I can say is that everyone has their own opinions about their pets and how they feel about them. 2years agp I had 6 cats, shortly after that 1 of them ended up being put to sleep because she had a tumer growing inward that could not be found on her initial exam. 2 years later we had a cat that was diagnosed with diabetis and had to have 2 shots of insulin, 11units a day and be on a special food and we finally had to put him to sleep in august.One of my cats will not go to bed until I do and follows me around everywhere, but we love our pets. And there isn’t anything I would not do for them! My daughter has 4 dogs….a german shepard, arottweilier, 2 pit bulls 2 cats and if you did not know those dogs you would think they were they meanest dogs in the world but they are they biggest babbies around! Dogs are just stero typed by their breeds which are not fair at all
I tell my doggie he’s the “most happiest waker-upper in the whole world” because he gets so excited when I wake up. (Might have something to do with breakfast time)
Awwww, I love this post! That looks just like my old dog, Whiskey (I didn’t name him). The nicest dog I’ve ever known who had to be put down because of cancer.
What Teresa said. I came back to look at this pic several times and it keeps making me smile. That’s a beautiful picture. It embodies that daily sort of encounter you get with a loving dog.
I was just thinking that CO could do a lot against Breed Specific Legislation if they did a series of big scary dogs (Pits, Rotties, etc.) being their sweet, adorable selves. Honestly the two best-trained, sweetest dogs I’ve ever known were both Pits.
Sandra: I totally understand where you’re coming from. The biggest, most adorable smoosh of a dog I ever met was a big, scary Rottie. I thought he was going to eat me, but he snuggled me instead.
this is why i love the pups…
Be prepared for massive face leeeekings!!
I bet it’s ugly when you try to leave in the morning.
*whining*
Do you have to leave?
Do you have to leave?
Do you have to leave?
Do you have to leave?
Do you have to leave?
Do you have to leave?
*whinge*
Can’t you just call in sick today?
Heh. Zoë does this too, big time.
LOL. My mom had a dog who would *pee* every time her dad came home from work.
“puppeeeeeeee! hellooooooooooooooo! Puppee!puppee!puppee!puppee!puppee!puppeeee! Yeeeeeeeeeeesssssss!”
(squee like Mariah Careyoke uncharted octave territory – drives puppeees krayzay! May cause puddling.)
One of the reasons to have a dog!
mmmmmmmmawwwwwwwwwwww…..
i missed you too, pup.
Meg, you’ve captured dogitude perfectly – this is dog !
Teho haz a dogz ?? Or rather, a dogz haz Teho ?
Aww! I would like to come home to a face like that!
PUUUUUPPYYYY YUPPPYYYY YUPPPYYYY UPPPY UPPPY ! * WHen said in high squeaky , excited voice it tends to drive doggies crazy *
Pooh — http://teho.vox.com/library/posts/tags/zo%C3%AB/
She’s more me Schmoop’s dog, but yeah, she’s right behind me as I type this, curled up in the Purple Satellite Dish of Delight.
1) That is a lovely pitty baby, is it not? The more I know those dogs, the more I fall in love with them.
2) Theo, basset hounds ROCK (and smell, a bit). My uncle had a basset named Flash, who was a total joy.
One more time: OMG you’re home!
Theresa — re: #2 — yeah, and they’re STUBBORN (and therefore hard to train). But SOOOO lovey and people-oriented and good with the other aminals and silly and gentle and… well, let’s say Zoë has earned the title of “Treat-Seeking Missile”.
“Beside himself with joy” someone worded it once. That’s a dog fer ya.
Teho : Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. She’s a cutie. And I like what Jaye wrote about cat/dog body language not yet in synch! But it will come.
Zoë : “I come in peace, o ye cat lords of this house!”
Cats : “Hrrumph. We’ll think about it.”
Willow : “massive disapproval muzzlepowsche.”
lol looks like my cocker spaniel Daisy when hubby and I get home. The glee in the eyes and the happy butt dance as we call it. She has a cropped tail so just her butt wags. me wants to pet puppeeeeeeeeee
Hee! Thanks for reminding me why I volunteered to pet-sit for two amazingly affectionate dogs and four not-as-affectionate cats next weekend. The dogs are JUST like this. “You’re back! You’re back! We missed you sooooo much! Er… Ignore all the stuff we knocked down around the house!”
The delight with which they greet you ensures cats will always be inferior to dogs!
GO DOGS!
My cats(!) look the same way when I come home. Both wait in the window till I come in then they both try and jump into my arms at the same time. We usually end up all tangled up in purrs and cuddles. It makes my day every day.
teho seriously what have you done to that poor orange kitteh in the top left corner of ya blog?? Does he always look like that??
[Oh c'mon, that's a photochop; I was trying for Bill the Cat... - Ed.]
How come cats don’t care when we come home?
pftahahaha! I saw my mom yesterday for xmas gift swap & her 2 boxers were in the minivan (got a lift to the yarn store W1N!!1!). I thought they were gonna go hairless: “It’s..OMG, it’s big sissie Sandy, ZOMGWTFBBQ!!1! Hiyeeeeit’sbeensolonghowyoubeenwhat’dyouhaveforlunchweloveyouuu” lulz. I couldn’t live with dogs, i hate a racket but man, no one makes you feel more welcome than a dog
My cats are always happy when I come home. OK, they drag me off to the kitchen immediately, but they’re still happy.
OMG, this is so my Leela. She gets so excited that I barely get into the house. She’s like, “OMG you were gone for soooooooooo long I thought you were never coming home pet me pet me pet me now give me a treat.”
I so love doggies!
Awwww such a heart tugger!
This photo made my day and also made me so glad I ran to Target over lunch and bought two big bones for my babies to gnaw on tonight. Yay for dogs and their unconditional love for their peoples.
White face + black lips and nosicle = instant squeedeath.
*dies*
Shouldn’t this be tagged “I shall leeck you”? ‘Cuz you just know it’s going to happen.
Mr. Picky usually creeps out from where he has been sleeping, and shows his belleh in welcome ["pat me, pat me, okay, that's enough"], and then herds me to his [empty] dish.
Yay!!! Pit bulls on cute overload! I love em!
inktupbbw, great description of a boxer greeting (which i get not only when i come home, but also when i get out of bed in the morning, which is apparently a minor miracle which MUST BE CELEBRATED. my boxer has been known to wiggle herself far enough off balance to fall down a few times)!
Theo, just find something *durable* for tug-of-war. Flash’s favorite thing was socks.
PS I used to play the basset horn!
this is exactly the kind of pup i need to come home to!
Oh, we have one of those rag knot things. It’s really hard to coax Zoë into a tug-of-war game, though. She wants to ROMP.
(when she’s not sleeping, which is mostly)
Or when she’s not going, “bom ba dee duh, bom ba dee duh.”?
This is what I will be thinking about the entire 12 hour drive home tomorrow. Can’t WAIT to my my doggy!!!
awwwwww. I have a “godpuppy” – who is actually 12 – and I am her favorite visitor. She has to greet me before anyone else does when I visit. She has to jump on me and kiss me and has a special bark just for me.
There’s no love like puppy love.
@Theo: She’s just trying to fit in with the cats. That 20 hours of sleep each day takes some getting used to…..
OMG what a happy little face, that is *definitely* puppy love!
Wet slobbery face wash in 3..2…1…
this made me inexplicably sad.
why is that?
Awwwww! Lol, my Axel does the same thing to my mommy, and for me. Even when we gets out of the car for ten minutes and comes back in he acts like he hasn’t seen us in a year!
Oh for crying out loud! The heart-shaped nose!
My papillon, Kaili barks at us when we come home but our teeny, tiny sheltie, Riley B is all over us ( well, as all over as a
7lb girl can be) and soooooooo happy!!!
Then, not to be outdone, we have a 3 1/2
lb pap barreling at us all licky missile.
Love to come home to our house!!!!
PS Truffle nose!
PPS Cats DO SO get all ‘cited when you come home. My guys always bounce off the walls when I come home in the evening. Of course, pretty soon they forget why they started zooming all over the house in the first place.
Awwwww! I love you SOOOOOO MOISHE!!!! Never leave me again!!!!!!!
I’m not sure, but is this a pit bull? Because THIS should be the image of pit bulls in our society. They are the friendliest, wonderfulest doggehs!
(Even if this is not a pit he’s super. And yes, I clearly know very little about dogs).
my boyfriend lost his job.
Every time I come home from work, my cat is sitting on the back of the recliner *which is directly next to the door* and my husky is doing his happy=puppy-circle-dance-of-joy in front of the door.
A few weeks ago my boyfriend said they spend ALL day in those spots, just WAITING for the sound of the car door.
One day, their uncle came home from work early. I was told the utter disappointment when the door opened and produced HIM instead of ME, was unimaginable.
It does look like a little Pit. I love the pits. Every one I have met has been very sweet.
Welcome Waggin’.
All I can say is that everyone has their own opinions about their pets and how they feel about them. 2years agp I had 6 cats, shortly after that 1 of them ended up being put to sleep because she had a tumer growing inward that could not be found on her initial exam. 2 years later we had a cat that was diagnosed with diabetis and had to have 2 shots of insulin, 11units a day and be on a special food and we finally had to put him to sleep in august.One of my cats will not go to bed until I do and follows me around everywhere, but we love our pets. And there isn’t anything I would not do for them! My daughter has 4 dogs….a german shepard, arottweilier, 2 pit bulls 2 cats and if you did not know those dogs you would think they were they meanest dogs in the world but they are they biggest babbies around! Dogs are just stero typed by their breeds which are not fair at all
Please stop posting pit bulls on CO. They are horrible baby killing dogs. Post more cats.
@Villy: Good story!!
@Totalee: “Welcome Waggin’”—Brilliant!!!
I tell my doggie he’s the “most happiest waker-upper in the whole world” because he gets so excited when I wake up. (Might have something to do with breakfast time)
Melvin, don’t you know that cats take a babies’ breath away? More pitties please.
Melvin, blame bad breeders and horrible people who train/abuse dogs to be mean – don’t blame the dog
I’ve looked back at this pic several times, and it always brings a huge smile to my face. Nose beeps, sweet little pitty!
Awwww, I love this post! That looks just like my old dog, Whiskey (I didn’t name him). The nicest dog I’ve ever known who had to be put down because of cancer.
Whutsup happy pup.
Melvin, you’ve bought the hype. Don’t be a sucker.
What Teresa said. I came back to look at this pic several times and it keeps making me smile. That’s a beautiful picture. It embodies that daily sort of encounter you get with a loving dog.
Theresa with an H, sorry. :\
I keep coming back to this picture, too. The puppy just looks so happy and makes me think of the good things in the world.
I was just thinking that CO could do a lot against Breed Specific Legislation if they did a series of big scary dogs (Pits, Rotties, etc.) being their sweet, adorable selves. Honestly the two best-trained, sweetest dogs I’ve ever known were both Pits.
Sandra: I totally understand where you’re coming from. The biggest, most adorable smoosh of a dog I ever met was a big, scary Rottie. I thought he was going to eat me, but he snuggled me instead.