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10 things about me, Gracie

 

1. my dad calls me bigfoot, and mom's got the scars on her arms to prove that I also have big fingernails.

2. I love visitors and children, but I can be overwhelming. I try to pat them with my big feet. I smile a lot. I want people to be happy with me.

3. I am very very sensitive and I don't like loud voices. once when dad was yelling at jones about something, jones didn't care, but they found me in the side yard sitting and shaking. [they are pretty quiet around me now]

4. I expect a tummy rub very late at night. I get up in the middle of the night to go out and pee because mom doesn't sleep well and she reads late. mom goes out with me. I am brave out there.

5. mom tries to take me out front in the daylight, but Rainey kitty scares me, so I run back in the yard.

6. mom came in the kitchen with a big box of cookies on her head [she was carrying it in from the utility room] and I saw her and ran in the house growling and barking. [heh! I didn't recognize her. she knows again how protective I am] [of my mom]. I don't always recognize dad with a hat on. [the chickens don't recognize him either. they squawk]

7. sometimes I try to jump on the kitchen counters and steal food [when I was a puppy I got a roast off the stove--my humans said it was their fault for leaving it there and not watching, and they said it was a tough roast anyway]. when I get on the counter edge dad says LOUDLY, 'Gracie! off!', and I smile and wag my tail and skulk around.

8. I always stay by my mom. I try to talk to her. I whine and cry and expect my humans to read my mind. sometimes they whine with me, and I make the same sounds, and I sometimes I howl.

9. I get cranky if Quiz misbehaves, but I let her climb up on me when it's cold and I'm in the Chair. Jasper yells at me and puts my head in his mouth. I play with Schubert out on the hill.

10. I am the sensitive vocal shy neurotic dog in the house. and I am the protective one.

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