Licking clean

Brie is definitely a licker. When she is held or lying down she will frequently lick a hand or arm, even before she sniffs she will lick first, and she will continue licking for quite a while (usually a couple of minutes). However, when it comes to licking her bowl clean, she isn't a much of licker, as she will leave her plate crumb covered. So today when I was looking through some pictures I had taken, I came across this photo. I never knew her tongue was that long.

Admirer

When we go to beaches Brie is very timid towards other dogs , but she is getting a little better each time. Many doggies comes to sniff and greet Brie. This particular gorgeous Bichon male doggie is especially very affectionate towards Brie, when he spots her on the beach he will be trotting straight towards Brie and doesn't leave her side for while. Even when he gets called he will stay with us and walk beside us for while. I guess he thinks he found a white and fluffy buddy. So his poor owner has to walk all the way over to carry him away. What our Brie does when he comes towards her with wagging tail is walk away and hide behind my husband's leg. Brie I think you broke this poor Bichon's heart. You should let him down a little easier than that he is just trying to be your friend.

Hoarder

Brie loves wood pieces, which she loves to bite and chew on. Ever since we had our deck extended there are little bits of two by four lying around, which Brie finds now and then. She has a very special talent for finding these, and hoards them in the house. We still haven't figured out why she likes them so much but she often uses a piece of wood as a pillow to sleep on, or just lays next to them even though it doesn't look that comfortable.

Spotting the Fake

There is this product which helps keeps teeth clean called Greenies. Brie loves these little green coloured chews, she will often hide hers and chew it for a long time. At the start we didn't know what it was so we picked up what seemed like a Greenie from a pet shop. To our horror, bits of wet chew stuck on Brie's fur and what ever surface Brie decided to it chew on. Which included our jeans and skirts. Considering how popular this product is, I thought this can't be right. So I looked them up on the Internet, and what we picked up wasn't a Greenies branded chew. Enough with the knock off Greenies, we picked a proper one up from the vet, and it was quite different, one side was toothbrush shaped and other was bone shaped, the colour was lot lighter and the material was a lot more solid. And the most important part was that Brie loved it, they are a bit pricey and a bit too big for everyday consumption, so we give Brie one on special occasions.

Newly found joy

Brie has found a new love of puddles on her outings to the beach. This was discovered by my husband, who naively took Brie for a walk on the rocks on the beach thinking she will stay out of the rock pools. But it turned out that she doesn't really care about shallow water, and that she likes to get her paws wet. We assumed that Brie doesn't like the water as she dislikes getting her paws wet on rainy days. However at the rocks she loved the shallow rock pools and decided to get wet. Naturally, her wet fur picked up the loads of sand and turned out to be a right mess.Brie is mostly fluff so when she gets wet she turns into a skinny little dog with dread-like clumps of hair. As she only got wet on her paws, her legs looked skinny as twigs with fluffy thighs. Off course my husband found that very funny but he conveniently assumed that I would wash Brie once she got home.

Beach outing

I like summer as the days are longer and that means I can go on Brie's walk later in the afternoon. Brie did a little more catching up with Phoebe and Beau yesterday at the beach. Beau as always wanted to greet every dog on the beach (I guess he is just being a polite little doggie) and Phoebe never runs out of energy. However Brie was a totally different dog when she arrived at the beach. She went up and sniffed a large doggie, and she even wagged her tail a little. This didn't last very long as she soon got chased by another dog as went back to her old shy self, but my husband and I were over joyed and couldn't believe our eyes.

Thank you Beau and Phoebe for playing with Brie this year we hope you don't mind putting up with Brie next year too.

New Year's Resolutions

When it comes to my own new year's resolutions I am very bad at following through, but for others it is enforced in my household. That means it includes you BRIE!!! As she shows no interest in this subject I will voluntarily come up with three new year's resolutions for her. One: no more accidents in guest's houses, a combination of nervousness and the curiosity of other smells around means that she still has little accidents occasionally. Two: reduce barking and Three: gain more confidence.

I know these are very high expectations and wishes but I don't think its hurts to dream big. But I sense no enthusiasm from Brie so it will probably stay as a dream.