Friday, March 3, 2006

One of Benny’s little quirks

We always joke that Benny is a little, old man that is set in his ways.  He has a certain routine for his day and he likes it that way. He doesn’t like it when his routine is interrupted or altered.

One of the things that he always does when he wants to settle in your lap is he always brings something with him.  It could be his puffy, a plush toy or even a bone.  Once in your lap, he shoves his face in yours and gives you a real close look at whatever he has brought you.  He doesn’t want you to take it from his mouth, he just wants you to get a real close look at it.  After he has showed it to you, he then settles and will hold on to whatever he has brought you for a few minutes until he has fallen asleep and dropped whatever was in his mouth.

This morning I had the pleasure of getting an up-close look at a soggy rawhide bone that he had been chewing earlier.  When he first started doing this as a puppy, it took us awhile to figure out what he wanted us to do as he was shoving all of these random things in our face.  But now we know it is just a Benny thing and it is all part of Benny’s endearing charm.