What kind of presents does your dogs bring you?

[Hawkeye-X]

I just got Teddy back yesterday, and so far, he's brought himself back. Before he was white with apricot ears, and now he looks a little darker. I'll have to take a photo of him and show everyone before and after one year.

Hawkeye-X

[curlyred]

1. Woody Woodpecker

When my children were small, they had a stuffed Woody Woodpecker toy that the dog took outside. No big deal, no great loss......but one day, Woody disappeared.

Many months later, Woody was resurrected from the garden, where he had been buried. Smelly, dirty, rotten ole Woody Woodpecker; proudly brought in the house by my dog.

The kids called Woody "Lazarus" for the few minutes he stayed out of the trash can.

[smirkymonkey]

2. Chickens...

Our dearly departed Beagle used to go over to a neighbor's hen house and dig under the fence, grab a chicken, and return to drop it in front of our door. As a gift. Of course, the chicken was dead, and we had to pay the owner for each one that our dog was responsible for.

I know it is cruelty to chickens, but I thought it was kind of touching that she was trying to provide for her pack (us)with food.

Of course, she never understood why she was yelled at at met with disapproval. She disappeared one day when I was away at school, and we never really knew what happened to her.

[Padraig18]

3. Pinecones

For some reason, he thinks we like pinecones, and we of course praise him whenever he brings us one--- which is almost every day. :P

[smirkymonkey]

4. How cute....

it's the thought that counts, you know :)

[hlthe2b]

5. My Aussie girl, Tallulah greets me at the door...

with one of her two favorite stuffed plush animals, either her "bunny" or her "ducky." She knows how cute I think she is running to the door to present it, taily wagging Otherwise, she pretty much ignores these toys.

Ok, altogether, now (in unison): awwwww!

[radwriter0555]

6. Lizard tails, sometimes, with the lizard still attached...

always on the kitchen floor.

There is something very distinctive about a lizard tail... you know is isn't a blade of grass, or a branch...

Yeck.

They played with a lizard carcass for days before the kidlet and I got SOOO grossed out we shrieked it into the trash can.

[KDLarsen]

7. A broken fridge...

.. seriously!

One of my mom's otherwise adorable Dachshunds, who have just won a 2nd prize at her first dog show, has a nasty habbit of chewing through various wirings going to various elextric items. We're still wondering a) how she can even reach the wires & b) why she is stil alive.

[trof]

8. She packed her bag.

Gypsy was our smartest shepherd.
We left on vacation and a neighbor was caring for her.
On the times she DID travel with us, we had an old red plastic TWA shoulder bag that was "hers". We'd put her food dish and pills and a couple of tennis balls in it.

While we were gone this time (sans Gypsy), she dragged her bag out of the closet and packed it with:
2 (unused) feminine napkins
a can of Alpo
one of Mrs. t.'s old sneakers
one of my boots
a cat toy (?)
a bottle of aspirin

Our neighbor found this on the third day we were gone, sitting by the front door.
She saved another surprise for us.
On every step of the stairs going up to the second floor was a shoe. One. On each stair.
And there was another surprise that the neighbor hadn't discovered.
I went to take a whiz, lifted the toilet lid, and there was my other boot.
Marinating nicely for several days, apparently.
What a dog.