I was just reading in a magazine that 94% of pet owners speak to their pets.
In our home, we
speak to our pooches all the time. Much to the dismay of A, I'm usually singing to the pooches. I usually make up my own lyrics to random songs that happen to be in my head. Since we have NPR on a lot, most of my songs are based on the NPR jingles played before and after shows.
Though we like to believe that we have deep conversations with the pooches, in reality they are just a few phrases that we ask or yell at the pooches. Here are some of the more common things heard in our home:
Oftentimes when we are getting ready for bed, we find Miss M laying comfortably on one of the beds in the bedroom, but Mr. B is no where to be found. On these nights, you can hear us yelling, "Let's go to bed, Mr. B!" If we do find him, there have been times that he just looks at us and continues to lay in Miss M's crate
and other times it looks like he just awoke from deep slumber with his ears all crooked.
Rarely do the pooches interact, but when guests are over, it is a completely different story. This is when Miss M decides to grab one of Mr. B's stuffy and start thrashing it all around as Mr. B stares in horror.
We start yelling at her to remind her that "that is Mr. B's toy" but she doesn't care. When she gets distracted, Mr. B takes that opportunity to run and grab his stuffy, but then Miss M thinks that he wants to play tug and soon the stuffy is being tugged and torn.
We often have to grab the stuffy out of Miss M's mouth and remind her that "that is Mr. B's toy" and he is off taking the stuffy into tepee for safe haven.
Right before we go for a walk, Mr. B decides that it is the best time to run around the house and grab a stuffy to take on the walk.
He will grab the stuffy and run at full speed towards the leash, which is usually held by one of us humans. For some reason he hasn't gotten the handle of hardwood floors and he will try to stop just short of bowling us over, but all he does is slide into our legs and then bowl us over.
A few times when I have been sitting, he have tried to hop over my legs only to land on my lap. As you can imagine, we are yelling "STOP running, you can't bring the stuffy on the walk!!!"
The most common phrase heard in our house is "What, Miss M?!"
For unknown reasons, Miss M will walk around the house verbally complaining.
We ask her that question and she looks at us as if we should know the answer. There are other times when she is praying on the ground or staring at us just looking miserable. During all of these times, we cannot help but as her "What, Miss M?!"
What are some common phrases heard around your home?
