As is usually the case when I can’t really think of what to write about, I go through my pictures and try to find a couple that I really like that I can talk about. 

I found the pictures of Delilah’s first day in CT; but found when I was looking at them I became very emotional; I think her story is going to be a bit longer than what I traditionally blog about.  Isn’t it fun to look back at pictures and see the changes someone has made?  To me Delilah looks as she always had, but I found this picture of her and you can so see how much of a puppy she still was.

When you see them every day, you hardly recognize that they have changed.

The other picture I have is of Sampson smiling.  Yes dogs really do smile and one of these days I am going to get a really good picture of him smiling. 

Sampson is such a “people” dog, he waits at the top of the stairs for one of us to come home.  If one of us is later than normal, he knows this too and he will sit patiently waiting.  (I shudder to think what he does when we are on a trip!)  When we come home, he smiles sleepily and rooo, rooo, rooos his happiness, sometimes his little paws prance up and down too; one of these days I will capture that on video and be able to share it too.  Once you are in the door, he must have your full attention, you are required to lay on the floor and reunite with him, you rub him and kiss him and he kisses you in return.  This must happen for about 5 minutes, if you cannot immediately get to him then he will lay there thumping his tail on the floor, sometimes he gets a toy and will pretend to be interested in it until you give him his attention.

Delilah on the other hand is immediately in your face, for a very brief time then she goes and gets a toy and lies on her back, wiggling this way and that until you rub her belly.

The greeting I receive from my dogs upon my arrival home, will erase any kind of crappy day I may have had, I feel loved, wanted and appreciated and I can tell you the feeling is returned 10 fold.

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