Hi, I’m Savanna! Read my introduction to study extra about me and my spunky Chihuahua combine, Penny.
“Raindrops on roses, and whiskers on kittens. Bright copper kettles and heat woolen mittens. Brown paper packages tied up with string…” Just just like the track says, these are a number of of my favourite issues. But with regards to our canine, they typically have very totally different favourite issues than we do.
Even if in case you have multiple canine, their favourite issues could also be fully totally different, even when they’re of the identical breed. After all, each canine has their particular person persona and preferences. Penny undoubtedly has her favourite issues that she loves. So to vary the lyrics of the track a bit of bit, these are a number of of my canine’s favourite issues.
Penny’s 5 Favorite Things:
1. Green Toys
Yes, that’s very particular. Penny has a number of toys, and that’s an understatement. But her favourite ones appear to be the inexperienced ones. Nine occasions out of 10, if she brings us a toy to play with, it’s a inexperienced one.
To me it’s unusual that she prefers inexperienced toys. While we beforehand thought that canine had been colorblind and see every thing in shades of grey, scientists suppose that canine can truly see blue and yellow as properly.1 Since inexperienced is a combination of blue and yellow pigments, I assumed perhaps it’s as a result of inexperienced is without doubt one of the colours she will see the most effective.
But canine can’t see inexperienced both, so I don’t know why she prefers her inexperienced toys over all the opposite ones.
2. Being “Kitty Monitor”
As it’s possible you’ll know should you’ve been studying alongside each week to date, we even have three cats. Penny has taken it upon herself to be the “kitty monitor.” If the kitties are lively, she’s all the time proper there beside one among them, ensuring they don’t trigger any hassle.
Instead of calling them by their precise names, we name one among them “good friend kitty” as a result of he’s the friendliest in the direction of her. One of them is “stripey kitty” as a result of he’s a tabby, and the third is “speckled kitty” as a result of she’s a tortoiseshell. These are the names Penny is aware of them by, and if we are saying, “Go discover stripey kitty,” she is aware of precisely which cat that’s and the place to search out him.
If one among them begins meowing, she all the time runs to research. She notably likes to regulate “speckled kitty.” I can’t determine why she retains an eye fixed on this explicit cat, however it’s most likely as a result of she needs completely nothing to do with Penny, however Penny needs one thing to do together with her.
3. Car Rides
Penny additionally loves automobile rides. I do know plenty of canine like automobile rides, however there are plenty of others that don’t. Usually it is because they affiliate automobile rides with going to the vet. But Penny has all the time beloved automobile rides ever since she was a pet. It doesn’t matter if I merely open my automobile door to get one thing out of it. She’ll observe me outdoors and bounce proper up within the automobile, wagging her tail as if we’re going someplace, even when we aren’t.
I really feel dangerous that she will get enthusiastic about us going someplace, even when we aren’t. It makes me need to take her for a brief little experience, even when it’s simply across the block.
4. Laying within the Sunshine
A number of dogs love laying in the sunshine. Penny typically asks us to take her outdoors simply so she will lie within the solar. And who can blame her? Sunlight is nice for all of us. It permits us to provide vitamin D, and it will increase serotonin manufacturing, which is a neurotransmitter that improves our temper, reduces nervousness, and improves sleep, and it has the identical benefits for our dogs.
I assume what the track says is true. Remembering our favourite issues doesn’t make us really feel so dangerous. And within the case of sunshine, it may truly make us and our canine really feel higher.
5. Playing within the Dirt
Sometimes Penny will get what I name the “diggy zoomies” the place she runs across the yard, stops within the dust, digs a hole really fast, after which zooms away. Then she repeats it a number of seconds later. When she does get the “diggy zoomies” she goes on and on for five–10 minutes earlier than stopping.
Usually once we’re out working within the yard, raking, planting, and so on., she’ll additionally play within the dust with us, like she’s serving to us dig. It seems, she’s a tough employee and a really environment friendly digger.
Writing a New Song
“My Favorite Things” is a basic track, but when Penny had been to make up her personal model, it could most likely go one thing like this:
“Going for automobile rides and inexperienced toys aplenty, watching the kitties and performing some digging. Laying in sunshine for vitamin D, these are a number of of my favourite issues.”
What are some issues your canine loves? What would their “favourite issues” track sound like?