Sunday, November 25, 2007

What Makes Bean Dog Unique?

The animal will only drink fresh water. Doesn’t matter if she only took a small sip out of her bowl, she will NOT drink out of it again. There will be plenty in there, but nope. She’ll nudge at the toilet lid until you hear her, she’ll hop in the shower and wait or she’ll come nudge my hand with her nose. Fresh water every time. She’d rather die of thirst before thinking of drinking out of her bowl twice.

This dog can open doors – not just doors already open a crack, but the front or back door… when they are closed. Seen her do it – she did it once when I had some girlfriends over for supper. Put her out to leave us alone, apparently she wanted to be one of the chicks… barged right in.

She also opens windows – in the house and garage. Many a times she has opened up the garage windows (completely shut – not locked but shut all the way), popped out the screen and jumped out. She loves to do it in the summer in the house if we don’t shut the windows and lock them. We’ll be piling in the truck and I look, there she is moving the blinds to the side, shoving the window open with her nose and popping the screen out (she's wrecked a few screens in the process).

She will jump up on the bed when she thinks Erk isn’t home or listening to notice.

This dog can seriously read my facial expressions – no words need to be spoken. If I’m excited and smile, she wags her tail, if I’m down or ticked off, she’ll react accordingly.

She likes to get nice and toasty in front of the heat/air registers and will even push me or the boys out of the way to get the heat.

She has climbed a ladder straight up to get into a deer blind.

When I’m doing dishes or done and the dishwasher is still open - she closes the dishwasher – got her on video doing it just the other night.

She knows when to be scary and let her hair stand up when strangers come here. It’s a great tool I tell ya!

We love her – she is definitely unique, loving, and at times… a jerk – but we wouldn’t trade this crazy dog for anything! Even Molly looks up to her :)