You think it wouldn't be hard to keep your basic, sturdy dog cot in the correct, upright position. Except, well, it is. It seems we are always turning them back over. The dogs' motto on some days appears to be, "Have cot, will flip." But until the other morning, I'd never seen a dog actually using an upside-down cot for the intended purpose -- but there was blind Buddy, curled up and sound asleep on the cot ... flipped over on the ground. By the time I came back out with the camera, wobbly Soba saw me heading down from the house and began barking excitedly, and that woke up Buddy. When I finally got to his yard and stuck the camera lens through the fence, he was now sitting on his upside-down cot and trying to figure out what Soba had been barking about.
(The green-and-white structure in the background is our portable chicken coop -- it's built on an old trailer chassis on wheels so we can move it around with the tractor. The hens free-range during the day and return to the coop at night. In the dog house, the nose and paws you see belong to Libby, one of our last two personal dogs from our original "Seattle six-pack" who moved to the ranch in Montana with us in 2000. Blind Goldie is our other one.)
Of course, no one was using the cot on the other side of the dog house. You know, the cot that was actually in the correct, upright position.
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Must be a "dog thing"! I volunteer at a shelter and many of the dogs turn their cots over and sit/lay on them this way too. Silly pooches!
Posted by: Sue Hamilton | October 25, 2011 at 10:09 PM
What a great picture of your dog! I love their expressions sometimes. Great chicken coop by the way. I love urban farming!
Posted by: Christy | October 22, 2011 at 01:48 PM
The expression in the cock of his head is priceless and as always, your commentary, Steve, is equally priceless. Do you do your own "harvesting" of the chickens? I think they are a great idea and I love that they are free range. I become furious when I read stories of poultry being held captive in cages to live out their lives unable to even turn around. That is inhumane. What kind of chickens do you have and do they come back to the house to lay eggs or is every day an egg hunt?
Posted by: Kathleen Rivard | October 20, 2011 at 12:55 PM
What a cute face Buddy has! I suspect he's thinking "listen, bud, this upside down thing works just fine for me, so pffftt!"
Thanks for sharing this cute picture!
Posted by: Ann | October 19, 2011 at 10:30 PM
Caption ==> "Huh?!?!?"
Posted by: Mauro Salles | October 19, 2011 at 03:31 PM
What an adorable pic of Buddy! I just want to give him some huge hugs. Thanks for the chuckle, Steve. Dog antics are great!
Hugs all around,
ginger, Tobias & Tlingit
Posted by: ginger | October 19, 2011 at 11:36 AM
I LOVE THIS PIC & YOUR DESCRIPTION STEVE. BUDDY HAS A LOOK ON HIS FACE - LIKE SO, I'M SITTING ON AN UPSIDEDOWN BED, WHATS THE PROBLEM. HOWEVER YOUR COMFORTABLE I ALWAYS SAY.
Posted by: FELICIA | October 19, 2011 at 10:27 AM
It looks like Buddy is waiting for a big hug!!!
Posted by: Glenda | October 19, 2011 at 07:45 AM
Haha, what a funny story and what a sweet face Buddy has! I live with a Spanish "have sunny spot, want bed there" dog and yesterday he did pull a round doggie bed into the sun but turned it upside down in the process. Apparently that wasn't soft enough anymore so he arranged a big pillow on top of it, only then it would do ;-)
Posted by: Jessia, NL | October 19, 2011 at 04:10 AM
Who knows what goes on the minds of dogs with cots to flip? Spoooooooky!
Posted by: Reta Davis | October 18, 2011 at 11:56 PM