I walked out into the living room tonight and saw Bailey the miniature Dachshund asleep with his face buried inside his stuffed bear. Well, it once WAS a stuffed bear -- and a big one at that, twice Bailey's size -- but over the past several months he's happily ripped out all the stuffing. ("I'll show this pesky bear who's boss!")
He still loves this thing, even though it's only a shadow (a rug?) of its former self, so we continue to launder it and give it back to him to beat up some more. Or sleep in. Whatever. He'll drag it all over the living room floor, just to keep it near him.
Anyone with Dachshunds will tell you they love to burrow under things. Bailey does, too, but he's also content sometimes to hide just a part of his body. So tonight simply burying his face met the "burrow quotient" for the evening.
(Click on photo for larger image.)
I'm partial to dachshunds, so maybe I'm biased, but I think that Bailey personifies Rolling Dog's mission better than any other animal in the crew. Most came with physical disbilities, but Bailey came broken in spirit, too, and ready to give up on life. Now he looks like the happiest little guy around. I always look forward to your posts about him and images of him.
Posted by: Jerry Stemnock | November 07, 2006 at 08:03 PM
Your description of Bailey sounds just like the PetsMart TV ad with the dashund dragging around his stuffed plush toy until mom finally sneaks the old dirty one away to the garbage and they head to PetsMart to get a new one. The clerk asks the dog where his "Bo-bo" is and gets him a new one and they leave dragging Bo-bo home. Apparently Bailey has his own Bo-bo!
Posted by: Miranda | November 07, 2006 at 01:15 PM
A dog cannot have a stuffed toy bigger than itself, didn't you know!?!? Therefore, Bailey had to come up with a way to weaken the toy by de-stuffing it.
Bailey's picture and story put a big smile on my face.
Thanks for posting it, Steve!
Posted by: Leilani | November 07, 2006 at 11:30 AM