It's the first of December, ye gods!!!

[venetia_sassy]

I keep thinking I've made posts in the last few weeks then looking at my dw and realising I just thought about it. Clever girl. But as the weather heats up (37C today, it has not been fun this week) and the mayhem of December descends, I feel that happy things will be needed. So I will try to post them even if can't manage actual coherence.

I was looking at cute animal vidoes on Youtube a couple of nights ago (happy things!) when I decided to look up dalmatian smiles. Why, I'm not sure. I didn't expect the lump in my throat but I was smiling as well after watching them because ... well, watch them yourselves. How can you not smile back at these crazy dogs?!

Most 'smiling' dals I've met have even smiles like Rupert here. He's also a good example of why people who aren't familiar with dalmatians or doggy body language can find the smiling quite alarming!

This dal wriggles and dances the way Lady Muck did when she smiled. And she looked more like Elli, with a narrower head and mostly white face. She had fewer spots on her ears and more on her body but with asimilar mix of large and small spots. But her smile was not even like this!

And yes, I sounded just as silly when I asked Lady Muck to 'schmile!' for me. She had the craziest, twisted 'schmile' and she'd suck in too much air and sneeze and smile some more. Our morning greeting was me asking for a smile and I usually got one. I'd often give her a good ear rub 'n' scritch as well and she'd moan and groan and schmile and schneeze and it was quite hilarious.

This was the only 'crooked' smile I found (and I even hear a familiar whine!) Watch this and imagine the nose twisting even further, more teeth showing, and multiple explosive sneezes. She looked utterly demented - but as Mum and I said to each other, in a way that made it a great smile because you couldn't help but laugh and smile back!

 

I do miss silky ears and schmiles. But I still call these videos happy things.

Comments

[turps]

Oh my goodness. Those vids are great!

[venetia_sassy]

You just have to smile, don't you?! *G*