More Tuckerisms... yeah... I know... I bore you... but these are interesting!

Yeah Yeah Yeah.... I am seem to be obsessed with our new puppy, but I get great pleasure at just watching him do his quirky little things.

Here are just a few of my funny observations about him.

1. Tucker is a mixed breed. (God forbid you call him a mutt. It sets off alarms in people like if I were to walk into Harlem and shout the N word.) His mother was a Border Collie and his father is unknown so we are still trying to figure out what the heck he is. The two most popular guesses are Corgi and Retreiver. Both would create a different shaped and sized dog. Tucker seems to exhibit the body of a Corgi as it is long with short legs. With his long body, he does something very funny. The shake is initiated in the HEAD area. It then seems to head down his body so that at one point it is all shaking and then... just his butt and then just his tail. That is frigging cute.

2. Guarding the room and his stuff is the cutest thing he does. He spends the day wandering around the kitchen area. We are sure to bringin in his squeaky toys and his pillow into the kitchen each morning so that he has stuff to play with. When we open up the house for him upon our arrival home each day, Tucker will run from the kitchen to the living room about 5 or 6 times each with something in his mouth. He brings all of his stuff to the living room so that he can play with it there. The living room, we think, represents freedom to him so he is bringing his stuff in there. He then sits in the one spot in the room where he can see the entire first floor's activities. He can't see in all the rooms, but he can see entering and exiting.

3. The Stretch is what muh wife and I call the activity that Tucker performs when he wakes up in the morning or from a nap. He stretches out his back legs by making them limp and taking a step or two forward making his already super long body even longer. Then... he makes his front legs limp and goes the other way. It could take as long as a full minute for him to fully stretch.

4. One of the funniest results of having a dog is that muh honey is now being greeted by kids and adults in the street when she walks him. I am a far more social person than muh wife in the neighborhood and I am proud to show off the little monster to people. The other day... muh wife told me that this woman and the kids that were with her basically yelled from across the street. "Look! It's Tucker!" and they ran over to pet him. I thought I was the most popular one in the family. Nope... it's Tucker.

Alrighty... that's enough for now. I am sure many of you didn't even bother to read this.

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