On nights, When I am sleeping during the day, I am overseen and carefully monitored by Dorothy.
She will lie with her back against mine facing the door and there is method in her slightly obsessive madness as from that position she can maintain her top dog status with Mary and the ever more slightly cropped Albert.
For as I am happily snoring my best ( Poor Alex….less said about that the better) the animals embark on a strange game of Grandmother’s Footsteps.
The game is started as soon as Mary or Albert realise that I have gone to bed. One or both will then gallop up the stairs and will jump into the foot of the bed.
Then Dorothy will let out a low rumbling growl
She is staking her claim.
To stop any escalation of hostilities Mary and Albert have learned to freeze exactly where they land, and by doing so Dorothy will stop her growling.
This tableau remains unchanged until Dorothy closes her eyes thus allowing Welsh Terrier and cat to move another millimetre until the growling starts up again.
I’ve pieced the “ game” together now after several aborted efforts to sleep over the past two years
And know that the growling and mini movements will continue until all animals are within a knat’s Crotchet of my body and peace reigns.
They all want to be near you!
ReplyDeleteUnable to sleep I thought I'd pop in and what do I see but an unsettling video-moving on I find the tactic of Mary and Albert has worked for me also-nighty nighty x
ReplyDeleteProtectors and love
ReplyDeleteLife is complicated.
ReplyDeleteHow funny! Sorry you're awakened by the nightly rocketing up the stairs, thunderous landing on the bed, and slowly and quietly settling in under Dorothy's watchful eye. Albert, of course, is the only one "on cat's paws, so stealthily he treads..."
ReplyDeleteHugs!
So they have developed their own version of Squid Games. You are loved! Have you watched any of Squid Games? I've just seen the first couple of episodes. It's like driving by a car wreck. You don't want to watch but you do anyway.
ReplyDeleteOh, that made me laugh! I can imagine Mary and Albert creeping up, stealthily. Your fur babies do love you, John. xx
ReplyDeleteOh gosh, I forgot how crazy that show was!
ReplyDeleteOur Lucy is a bulldog X and obsessively lies with her back to the chosen human. She's not guarding though, just loves the warmth
Your animal family is so funny and endearing. I love that expression too! :)
ReplyDeleteLooking after you!
ReplyDeleteI am so glad I didn’t watch Squid Game!
ReplyDeleteI'd close the bedroom door to them. You can love your pets but you don't have to sleep with them.
ReplyDeleteI sleep with 180 lbs of dogs, there is no rhyme or reason, and oft times I am the pillow.
ReplyDeleteThat was a cheery little video.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like they have a very carefully worked out routine, things will ease if Dorothy goes a bit deaf in her later years ... we get away with murder now that Suky can barely hear us. I managed to open and eat a whole packet of crisps the other day with her right next to me.
ReplyDeleteLOL. I can envision it perfectly.
ReplyDeleteJohn, by the way, I loved the gift of Dorothy and Mary's "portraits." I would terribly miss all the little huddles and cuddles of my pets. You are fortunate to have your mates to make your house a home. Hugs from the base of the mini-mountain in Maine.
ReplyDeleteIt appears sleeping has rules at your house: Everybody has their place and best not invade other spaces. They all want to be close and that is very sweet.
ReplyDeleteMy thatch is irritated when my Romanian licks himself during the night-he growls and growls which disturbs us all-I then need to referee and settle everyone down again-During the daytime he Will allow it x
ReplyDeleteAs close as they can get...
ReplyDeleteYour fearless protector!
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