picspam: Traf and Boomer at rest

[kayliemalinza]

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[kel_reiley]

OMG THE CUTE !!!

when jake (dog in icon) was a puppy, i used to coax him up onto the couch with me, or my bed, and mostly he'd just look around nervously like, "oh my word, this is very high, isn't it? i do not believe this is natural at all"

[kayliemalinza]

Aw, that's kinda sad. Even Forrest would get up on my bed sometimes, smelly thing that he was.

Jake sounds suspiciously British. :P

[kel_reiley]

well, he was a collie so... scottish right?

[possibly_thrice]

My dog was trained off sleeping on human beds by her former owners. So instead I sleep in her bed. :')

[kayliemalinza]

::snerk::

Good plan! I'm hoping her bed isn't in a crate, but if it is I won't judge??

[possibly_thrice]

Noooo it is an oversized felty pillow. So that is all right.

[cirrocumulus]

PUPPIESSSSSS

GOD I MISS HAVING A DOG SO MUCH. :(

[kayliemalinza]

I'M SO SORRY!

I HAVE NEVER NOT HAD AT LEAST ONE

SO I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT FEELING WOULD BE LIKE.

I didn't have the dogs at school, of course, but I did have friends and they were almost as good. They would fetch for me (which is more than the dogs would do, in fact.)

[captain_bookcat]

Your dogs are quite charming. I do not myself have dogs, but one of my cats likes lying on my face. Idk, it's a new development.

[kayliemalinza]

!! Which cat is that? Is it Zappers? Idk, whenever you say oneof your cats has done something interesting I assume it was Zappers. ^_^

[captain_bookcat]

It is indeed Zappers! Most of my cat stories actually are about Zappers, because he's the one who does weird/interesting things, while Java is just anti-social and vaguely neurotic.

[kayliemalinza]

Zappers is my life inspiration. :D

I remember one time you told me he had learned to swagger.

P.S. IT OCCURS TO ME THAT I HAVE NOT SEEN PICTURES OF YOUR PETS?

[kayliemalinza]

Do you mean that they are dog-like dogs? As in, they are good dogs but would make terrible tigers?

omigosh, if you have allergies, my house will kill you. :/ Especially now, with Boomer shedding like crazy and all the fans on. The fur no longer lies in wait; IT ATTACKS FROM ABOVE!

[kayliemalinza]

That's an important clarification! We require some baseline obedience (like getting in their crates when we want them to) but other than the my family treats out pets like small, semi-autonomous persons.

Traf is definitely an anxious genius, and very pathetically needy affectionate. Boomer is less... communicative, if not less smart (he doesn't learn commands as quickly as Traf does, but he can unearth a Milkbone no matter where Traf tries to hide it) so that's probably the wolf part. He is occasionally indifferent to our affection, which, in the tradition of pretty boys everywhere, just makes us wants him more.

:DDDDD
Traf is actually a particular local brand of mutt-- there's a population locus of stray dogs several blocks from my house and they all look like Traf. I'm hoping that in a few decades, they'll be named a new breed. :P

:(((((