Attention (from Wiktionary) – Mental focus. Mom! Mom! I’m here! I’m here! PAY ATTENTION AND PICK ME UP. Mom!! Mom!! NOW NOW NOW. Put the camera away and pay attention to MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. And for such a little dog, he sure can give a mean poke to the shins. Word for tomorrow – NEAR. If you prefer…
Smiled – Simple past tense and past participle of smile – a happy, facial expression. It’s always fun to look at my pictures when I’ve uploaded them and realize that the dog smiled at me. He’s normally a content animal – this one though I think he was being petted and enjoying every minute of it. I…
Fortunately (from Wiktionary) – happily, luckily, mercifully, thankfully. Fortunately God makes puppies cute and cuddly so when they screw up, they don’t die instantly. Here is what happens when a puppy takes down the child gate and gets at the boxes of cat crunchies. And he was a puppy – barely four months old at…
Owing – To be under an obligation to give something back to someone or to perform some action for someone. The dogs – especially the beagle – seem to think that if they do a trick, oh let’s say SIT – I am now owing them a treat. Note that the beagle’s fanny is not…
Full (from Wiktionary) – satisfied, especially in relation to eating. It’s time for the daily feeding frenzy! It is also a perfect example of transference – the bowls are full and will soon be empty; the bellies are empty and will soon be full. Yes, dog #3 is missing from this photo – he is food aggressive and gets…
Leap (from Wiktionary) – To jump from one location to another. Or to act wild and see how much noise can be made by two dogs playing. There was a lot of teeth and a lot of noise, but not much action. Isn’t this baby beagle just the cutest? He still is, but he’s much…
Join the challenge! For more information, click the tab marked “challenge invitation“. Deadly – lethal [from Wiktionary] No, the puppy had not been properly crated until after his rampage. The puppy no longer gets crated, has a grey chin and face, but will still opportunistically destroy baseball caps and dirty lunch containers if they are left too close…
White Flag – The white flag is an internationally recognized protective sign of truce or ceasefire, and request for negotiation. . . The most common way of making a white flag is to obtain a pole and tie two corners of a sheet of cloth to the top of the pole and somewhere in the middle. …
Waft is a term meaning to carry along gently as through the air. The term is commonly used to describe scents that have diffused in to other parts of a room, or to describe smoke as being seen moving through the air. Wafting may be used for everyday substances, to make sure they are fresh, or…
