I think we are due for a little check in with my weird dog Pippen.
Believe it or not, the youngest child helped me load Pippen into the car so we could take him for a bath. Normally I hose Pippen down in the driveway. Unfortunately, the weather here does not cooperate. It's difficult to hose him down when the temperature is 20F. He was a good boy while he was being bathed. He won't fight me if I'm the one giving him a bath. It was definitely worth the trouble, though. He smells so clean!
Pippen is now in his "vocal" era. He likes to bark.....alot. If you let him outside and accidentally forget about him, he will bark (non-stop) until you let him inside. If you happen to be sitting in the family room, watching a really good movie, he will stand in front of the window, stare at you and bark. In the morning, if I decide I want to sleep in a couple extra minutes, he will bark until I get up out of bed and go downstairs. (yea, he's a pain!)
Pippen is starting to lose it. If you close the door to a room in the house, he will start barking. He thinks someone is at our front door.
It seems Pippen has selective hearing. The other day, I brought him out front with me. He walked across our front yard to our neighbor's house. Then decided he was going to cross the street. The entire time he was goofing off, I was calling him to come back. He just ignored me. I had to go grab him and tell him to go home.
His little "quirks" drive us crazy, but are quite entertaining.
