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We asked our puppy owners from the Theory of Evolution litter to tell us some of the funny things their minis are doing, and we recieved this reply back from Kathleen Smith (Patronus Kennel). Tiff and I both thought it was hilarious! Enjoy.
"I take all the dogs out one at a time last thing before bedtime, with the floodlights on in the backyard. Without fail, Howie runs straight up to the fence and barks at his shadow. Hackles up, all in terrier mode, fiercely protecting his house. I have to go out to where he is and move him to the middle of the yard, where his shadow doesn't cast on the fence. Then he does his business and apparently forgets that the evil shadow monster was threatening his existence mere minutes before.
On the more bizarre side, he loves to lick my big cat's belly. Crookshanks is 22 pounds, and he tends to lay on his back - in doorways where he is the biggest pest, and gets tripped over often. When Howie is coming in or going out of the doorway, he likes to stop and lick Crookshanks' belly, which needless to say annoys Crookshanks to no end. Howie thinks its a hoot, his tail usually wags non-stop even when he gets cat-slapped for being so offensive. The downside to this is that he often sports cat scratches on his nose, which are a problem when its time to show!
Howie is also a talker. The sounds are hard to explain unless you've heard him do it. He makes high-pitched talking sounds pretty much the entire time he is awake (although he does it much less when on a leash for some reason). I have been asked by people on the phone with me if I own a pot-belly pig, and I have to tell them no, that's just Howie! Its hard not to laugh when you hear him talking, because you just don't expect to hear sounds like that coming from a dog. It took Lesalee [Envision Registan All Revved Up] a while to get used to it, he talks to her often and she used to bark back. Once she figured out that the sounds were from Howie and not some sort of piggy intruder, she stopped. Now she sits and tilts her head as he serenades her".
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