While you were gone…
I took a business trip last week and Jasmine was home with Mike. Anytime someone is missing from the house, a different dynamic takes place. I love it when I come home and the greeting that ensues when I walk through the door. First the 1/2 jump up (she knows mommy doesn’t allow the jumping) then the whining, the wrapping around of her paws on me and then she collapses to the floor (knowing that I will bend down). In a very short moment she will be laying on the floor (to see if I will join) and then the roll over with full belly up just begging for a scratch, a rub down and some love. You would think she was totally ignored for an entire week!
What I love even more though is the little things that are our routine that I know have a different take on them when I am gone. She and I have developed great communication and ways that she tells me things. One of my favorites is when she wants a treat she comes up to me, sits and then taps her foot–as if she is spelling out treat with SOS. If you ignore this it will get more pronounced. Eye contact with her at this point brings a lick to the chops and then when I actually say “do you need a treat?”… she hops and does a little 1/2 circle kind of dance as she moves towards the treat jar.
There are a lot of our little routines that she kicks right into the first day that I am back and I love it. Those things are our dogspeak that we both miss when I am gone.
How about you? What do you notice when you return after begin away from your dog?
