Diligence JonesJun 3, 2023

It's funny how we let dogs into our homes/lives. They've got big teeth; big heavy paws with claws. They used to be dangerous.

But I'm doting on this guy, calling him Schmoopie face and Bubba and Fartacus. Diligently feeding him treats by hand, checking his ears, teeth and poops. Wiping his ouchie spots. Leaning over him as he sleeps, watching his chest rise and fall, listening to him snore. The only person I do this for is my 79 yo father. After heart surgery.

We probably have a lot of conditions for the people we let into our lives.

But dogs...we open our hearts wide. We scoop them up and never look back. We take their love and run.

#dogs
#dogsOfBayArea #DogsOfMastodon
#BensonUpdate

Show threadouinneJun 3, 2023
@DeliaChristina i. have watched Chloe bite through a half-inch-thick cotton rope the way I would bite a stick of gum in two, yet every day I give her a pill by putting my finger in the corner of her mouth to open jaws that could easily take that finger clean off.
But she is my baby, so I don’t even think about it. (Her sister is also my baby!)
Show threadDiligence Jones

@ouinne Every morning I slip treats into the mouth of a pit bull whose jaws can easily chomp off a finger. I can feel him restraining himself when he nibbles at a treat in my hand.

They love their people.

Jun 3, 2023 at 12:52amWeb
Show threadouinneJun 3, 2023
@DeliaChristina yes! It’s very funny because Chloe will draw back her lips like a timber wolf to take a treat but not even her whiskers touch my skin. Although Viola her sister gets her treats tossed to her, because Vivi gets too excited to remember my fingers aren’t treatos. 😂