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RANT WARNING
I also have a love/hate relationship living with two Blues... They're my daughter and son-in-laws dogs, but they've attached themselves to my wife (who's also a big pushover) and she can't make a move without them being under her feet. Literally. She calls them "shadow dogs" because they are usually right in her shadow. She can't take a step backwards without tripping on one of them. But their barking... holy crap! They sound like dogs twice their size! I seriously can't remember the last time I took a nap, or watched a TV show, or carried on a conversation or enjoyed a quiet meal that wasn't interrupted by those two buttholes. Imagine sitting and quietly eating dinner, and all of a sudden there's an explosion of barking dogs going ape-shit bursting right out from under your dining table and clawing the crap out of your feet as they go scrambling after what ever set them off, which, more often than not, turns out to be nothing. The worst part tho, is when they try to protect my wife from our grand-babies. The constant barking and trying to force themselves in between my wife and her perceived "attackers" has really gotten old. Sometimes we have to lock them in their room, but then we have to listen to them barking non-stop through the door. But hey... they're family, amiright? sometimes it just be that way.
Ok, Rant over. Thanks for letting me vent. Aside from all that, they're actually pretty awesome dogs. Smart and quirky, to say the least. One of them tho isn't smart enough to figure out that our German Shepherd don't play that ankle-grabbing crap like her blue brother does. She gets tore into pretty good every time she tries it...
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