Morning Shoe Routine

In the spirit of the title of this blog: I want to tell you a story about shoes today. Every morning I get out of bed, shower, dress, and then go out side to meet the world for the day. Of course, this sounds so sweet and nice but really it's so difficult for me to complete most of these tasks and be at work on time. Unless I have spent the night with Big, I normally arrive at work late which is bad I know. My Mom scolds me almost every day about it.

Anyways, the routine changes a bit when I get ready over at Big's house due to getting up before the sun with a morning person and a black Labrador that is insistent on no one leaving him in the backyard for the day. I know that I have written many blogs about Tuckie that portrayed him as being mischievous or bull headed, and he is those things, but he is also very intelligent sometimes even more so than we would like. Funny how we humans get into a routine and don't realize that we are also projecting this onto the animals around us. He eats at the same time every night and if you don't have food in that bowl he will stand in there until you get up to feed him. He knows the difference in a Wal-Mart sack and a Target sack. Let me explain this: When we go to Wal-Mart it is normally for just groceries, but when we go to Target a rawhide bone almost always accompanies us home. When you come in the door with the sack he will stand there until all of the contents are emptied so that he can survey them and retrieve the thing he loves most in this world, a bone.

So that being said, this morning Big didn't have to go in to work and it was just me having to get up and go into work. Unfortunately, I was being teased a bit about having to go work while they could do nothing all day long without me. Ugh. When I was getting my shoes out to put them on, Tucker, decided quickly that he wasn't having it. So the tug of war began with a little bit of pushing and rubbing up against me. Then when I lifted my foot off the floor with my tennis shoe in my hand the puppy tried to take it away from me while Big and I laughed. After this was unsuccessful only because he couldn't take it from me, but not otherwise because I still only had one shoe on, I was hopping in an attempt to trick him. It didn't work. With a black blur he was between my legs trying so hard to prevent me from leaving him. I laughed so hard that I thought I would cry and then he turned to his left which almost sent me flying through the air and onto the floor. Big yelled from the office for him to stop between laughing fits because he had witnessed this entire escapade. I finally got the shoe on and then Tuckie was defeated so he ran into the office to check Big's feet for socks and shoes. To his delight, Big didn't have either of those things on his feet and so the dog knew that he wouldn't be completely alone today.
My poor tennis shoes have almost been a victim to Tucker on several occasions. He is just so sweet but so smart. I have to say I really love that puppy and I can't remember what we did before. I imagine we were bored or possibly empty but for now he is the main topic of our conversations these days. Love you Tuck~Tuck.
Until next time, have a wonderful day and love your puppies because they are our best friends